 | Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase and Fable by Russ Willey
Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £12.22 The legends, lore, locals, localities and lingo of London (compiled by the author of this list)
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 | The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition) by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: £30.14 / Used from: £27.29 The third edition of this heavyweight work, published in 2008
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 | Tunnels, Towers and Temples: London's 100 Strangest Places by David Long
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £11.63 A follow-up to Mr Long's bestselling Spectacular Vernacular, this one explores more of London's most distinctive structures
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.57 / Used from: £4.99 Parts of this might belong in a fiction list, but it's indispensible either way
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 | Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair
Buy new: £13.19 / Used from: £10.00 Iain Sinclair isn't always easy to read but he loves London like no one else; here he discourses at length on his home patch
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 | London Gazetteer by Russ Willey
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £2.00 Potted histories of every district and locality in London, including dozens that even lifelong Londoners won't know
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 | A Dictionary of London Place-Names (Oxford Paperback Reference) by A.D. Mills
Buy used from: £12.00 More than just Saxon landowners although there are a lot of them
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 | The Times History of London (Mapping History S.)
Buy used from: £10.00 Previously marketed as a historical atlas, this has been repackaged as an illustrated history
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 | The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital by Dan Cruickshank
Buy new: £14.97 / Used from: £12.92 A new bestseller by the ebullient architectural historian
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 | London: East v. 5: East Vol 5 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by B Cherry
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £19.91 The most recently updated of the six volumes comprising an exhaustive study of London's architecture
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 | The London Underground: A Diagramatic History by Douglas Rose
Buy new: £8.94 Who needs a heavy history tome? In a single sheet this tells you (almost) everything you need to know about the development of London's undergound network
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 | London Suburbs
Buy used from: £22.24 Beautifully illustrated, thoroughly researched study of the parts that tourists miss, but sadly out of print now
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 | Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London by Antony Clayton
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £6.99 Heavy on (black and white) pictures, with oversized type to try and pad out the text between, but well-researched and readable
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 | The City of London: Club No More, 1945-2000 v. 4 by David Kynaston
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £12.07 Final part of David Kynaston's in-depth history of the City
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 | The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall
Buy used from: £9.99 Un-updated reissue of a 25 year-old book but still essential reading if you're interested in the growth of any part of London, not just Kentish Town
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 | The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £9.00 Newly published successor to The Little Book of London, this time going underground
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 | London: A Social History by Roy Porter
Buy new: £10.30 / Used from: £7.59 Enlightening study by the late Professor Porter
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 | Leadville: A Biography of the A40 by Edward Platt
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 The Western Avenue: you've driven it, now you'll know it
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