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Foul deeds and suspicious deaths in Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras - Mark Aston
Wharnecliff Books, ISBN: 1903425948
Nothing grips the darker side of our imagination more than hearing grisly tales of past murder and malice. This book takes the reader on a journey back in time to part of north-west London to recall a selection of gruesome events guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine. Researched by Camden local studies librarian, Mark Aston, this trip down 'felony lane' chronicles this past with an assortment of well-known and some not so well-known crimes spanning a period of three hundred and fifty years to 1955.
-- CamdenLondon Orbital: A Walk Around the M25 - Ian Sinclair
Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN: 0141014741
What looks at first like a dull and deeply unappealing journey is actually a multi-layered, lyrical, ugly, mythical, engaged and engaging excursion from the present into the past and back again.
-- RichmondSimon & Schuster, ISBN: 0743208013
Revealweb: The entrepreneurial daughter of a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, looking for ways of supporting herself, Phyllis Pearsall decided to remedy the unmapped muddle that was London in the mid-1930s. This biography tells of the woman who single-handedly created the publishing phenomenon of the London A-Z.
-- City of London
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever - Christian Wolmar
Atlantic Books, ISBN: 1843540231
This book deserves to be enjoyed outside trainspotting or railway enthusiast circles. Charting the foundation and growth of one history's boldest engineering projects, it is full of fascinating revelations about London, its people, its politics, its demands and its ever-increasing needs.
-- RichmondThis Is a Modern Life: The 1980s London Mod Scene - Enamel Verguren
Helter Skelter Publishing, ISBN: 1900924773
In-depth history of the mod revival that was sparked off by the 1979 release of the movie Quadrophenia. Features interviews with many of the key faces in the 80s mod scene, as well as fliers, posters, record sleeves and some classic photos.
-- Richmond