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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $69, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXGBR407)		  
Eyewitness Guide London  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES
This superb guide to London features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (GBR34, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide London
London Perceived  •  Evelyn Hofer  •  V. S. Pritchett
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2002 •  PAPER  • 214 PAGES
A love letter to the city -- which Pritchett endearingly calls a splodge -- and especially of the life of the place. In his mind, London means experience, and in these pages he wanders (often in the company of great authors from times past) through the neighborhoods, parks, palaces, pubs, markets, cemeteries and backwaters of the city. Prichett's eloquent riffs are accompanied by handsome black-and-white photographs by Evelyn Hofer. First published in 1962. (GBR310, $19.95)		   London Perceived
The Story of England  •  Christopher Hibbert
HISTORY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES
Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies, and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics, and culture from the Neolithic to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. Hibbert, a masterful storyteller, relates anecdotes that bring history to life in this concise, highly readable introduction to England's past. (GBR02, $19.95)		   The Story of England
London Map  •  Borch Maps
2009 •  MAP
This sixth edition laminated folded map of London includes London proper at 1:15 000, Kew Gardens & Richmond (1:35 000), Central Sights (1:11 000), Greater London (1:375 000) along with Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Public Transport London. With hotels, museums, monuments, markets, public transport, top sights and points of interest, useful statistics, and conversion charts. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (GBR114, $8.95)		   London Map



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City Secrets London  •  Robert Kahn   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A connoisseur's guide to the city and its attractions, with personal recommendations by artists, designers, architects and personalities who have made their home in London. (GBR327, $19.95)
 		  
Fodor's London's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide to London (with handy full-color maps) has everything you need to know for a short visit to the city, including recommended sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and shops. (GBR08, $12.99)
 		  
Food Lovers' London  •  Jenny Linford   • GUIDEBOOK  •  London's specialty food shops, restaurants and neighborhoods are covered in glorious detail in Jenny Linford's illustrated handbook. (GBR593, $16.95)
 		  
Insight Guide London  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide to the city with hundreds of color photographs and excellent local maps. (GBR367, $19.99)
 		  
Time Out London Walks, 30 Walks by London Writers  •  Time Out   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A personable guide to a wide variety of London excursions.The handy guide is chock full of color photographs, illustrations, practical information and good maps. (GBR595, $19.95)
 		  
A Traveller's History of London  •  Richard Tames   • HISTORY  •  The story of London, from the Romans to Tony Blair, tailored to the traveler. (GBR232, $14.95)
 		  
Five Days in London, May 1940  •  John Lukacs   • HISTORY  •  A fly-on-the-wall account of a long weekend in 1940, capturing all the uncertainty, drama and suspense surrounding Churchill's affirmation that Britain would continue the war with Germany. (WAR47, $11.95)
 		  
Johnson's Life of London, The People Who Made the City That Made the World  •  Boris Johnson   • HISTORY • COMING IN MAY  •  London Mayor Boris Johnson's public persona in Britain is akin to a floppy-haired public school boy who has stumbled by accident on to the levers of power. In print this persona can stray sometimes to the wrong side of parody as Johnson offers this otherwise entertaining guide to the famous figures who have made London great. In garrulous prose Johnson offers his views on such luminaries as Winston Churchill, the Roman Emperor Hadrian and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. (GRB62, $27.95)
 		  
Letters from London  •  Julian Barnes   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This sparkling collection of essays by the brilliant novelist Julian Barnes hones in on the social complexity and political reality of modern day England. (GBR14, $16.95)
 		  
Little Book of London  •  David Long   • HISTORY  •  The Little Book of London is a funny, fact-packed compendium full of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or just strange-but-true stuff which no-one will want to be without. (GBR751, $21.95)
 		  
London, A History  •  A.N. Wilson   • HISTORY  •  A brief, evocative meditation on the rich and varied history of England's capital city by the prolific British writer, critic and historian. Wilson examines London through several lenses, using humor and insight to discuss art, architecture, politics and culture. (GBR480, $14.00)
 		  
London, A Social History  •  Roy Porter   • HISTORY  •  A short, illustrated history of London, chronicling the city from its origins as an outpost of the Roman Empire through medieval hub, Renaissance center and imperial capital. (GBR59, $20.95)
 		  
London, The Biography  •  Peter Ackroyd   • HISTORY  •  A big thematic history of London from Celtic settlement to Roman outpost and world power, much focused on the life of the city. A popular biographer and novelist, Ackroyd leavens the centuries with anecdote, personality and great affection. (GBR248, $21.00)
 		  
Londoners, The Days and Nights of London Now As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Have Left It, and Long for It  •  Craig Taylor   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Drawing on the unforgettable stories of nearly 100 Londoners, Taylor provides a rich and vivid kaleidoscopic view of modern day London through the diverse voices of the city's citizens who, regardless of whether they love or hate it, capture the heart and soul of one of the world's greatest cities. (GRB69, $29.99)
 		  
The Thames  •  Jonathan Schneer   • HISTORY  •  Schneer places the Thames at the center of the great events of British history in this engaging, anecdotal and evocative history. (GBR570, $35.00)
 		  
Watching the English  •  Kate Fox   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Fox's clever guide to conversation, behavior, quirks, habits and foibles of the English, wildly popular back home in Britain. (GBR927, $17.95)
 		  
Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $15.95)
 		  
London Rediscovered  •  Louise Nicholson  •  Richard Turpin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An informative celebration of the city, its history and architecture, in words and photographs. (GBR513, $45.00)
 		  
London, The Thames, North Bank from Richmond Lock to Canary Wharf  •  Richard Holt   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This clever book unfolds accordion-style to reveal a 13-meter panorama of the North Bank of the River Thames. Captions describe the name of the buildings, bridges and other places of interest together with the construction date and the name of the architect. (GBR812, $55.00)
 		  
Westminster Abbey  •  Richard Jenkyns  •  Mary Beard   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  In a highly original pocket book, classicist and cultural historian Richard Jenkyns looks afresh at the celebrated church complex -- national cathedral, coronation church, royal mausoleum, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, former home of parliament, place of Princess Diana's funeral. (GBR810, $14.95)
 		  
In Search of London  •  H.V. Morton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An enduring portrait of the city and especially of its history, originally published a half-century ago. As in all of his travel books, Morton charmingly mixes a deep appreciation of the art, culture and, especially, the history of a place with his own keen observations. (GBR269, $18.50)
 		  
The Age of Shakespeare  •  Frank Kermode   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A remarkably concise, elegant overview of the world of Shakespeare in the Modern Library Chronicles series by the eminent British critic and scholar. (GBR522, $14.00)
 		  
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel  •  Jerome Jerome  •  Jeremy Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Written in 1889, "Three Men in a Boat" (to say nothing of the dog!) is a laugh-out-loud account of a man-powered voyage along the River Thames, full of detail on life and lore. A Longitude favorite. (GBR28, $12.00)
 		  
84 Charing Cross Road  •  Helene Hanff   • LITERATURE  •  This charming novel of bibliophilia tells of a love triangle between a New York writer, the owner of a London bookstore and the books he sells. (GBR231, $13.00)
 		  
Absolute Beginners  •  Colin MacInnes   • LITERATURE  •  Set in the the jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill in the late 1950s, this novel follows a young photographer, whose wit and honest views define London of the period. (GRB34, $16.95)
 		  
Blue Guide Literary Companion London  •  Robin Saikia   • ANTHOLOGY  •  An anthology of prose and poetry excerpts taken from over 300 years of literature written in or about London. Each piece is prefaced by biographical and contexual notes. (GRB70, $11.95)
 		  
London, The Novel  •  Edward Rutherfurd   • LITERATURE  •  This novel marches through 2,000 years of London history. (GBR98, $18.95)
 		  
Original Sin  •  P.D. James   • MYSTERY  •  An Adam Dalgeish mystery set in the publishing industry. (GBR409, $15.95)
 		  
Small Island, A Novel  •  Andrea Levy   • LITERATURE  •  A marvelous novel of family, displacement, belonging, race and empire, set in a Jamaican immigrant community in post-WWII London. (GBR560, $15.00)
 		  
The Body in the Library  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  In this Agatha Christie classic, a stylish blonde is found murdered at Grossington Hall and Miss Marple must put her keen observation skills to work to solve the crime. (GBR186, $12.99)
 		  
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London  •  Lawrence Manley   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A dozen experts contribute to this scholarly survey of the city of London and how it has been represented in poetry, art and literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. (GRB71, $29.99)
 		  
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories  •  Arthur Conan Doyle   • LITERATURE  •  This paperback volume manages to collect every Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote, including "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and his three other short novels concerning the legendary detective. (GBR157, $13.90)
 		  
The Heat of the Day  •  Elizabeth Bowen   • LITERATURE  •  The suspenseful tale of life in London during the bombing raids of World War II. (GBR378, $16.00)
 		  
The London Scene, Six Essays  •  Virginia Woolf   • LITERATURE  •  The great Virginia Woolf, here writing for the British Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1930s when she was already a leading light, makes a congenial guide to her hometown in these essays, loosely organized as a series of walking tours. Her focus is on London's lterary scene, including Keats, Carlyle and a whole lot of dead poets. (GBR693, $16.95)
 		  
The Ministry of Fear  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  A thriller set in London during the Blitz by the master of atmosphere and ambiguity. (GBR571, $15.00)
 		  
The Road Home  •  Rose Tremain   • LITERATURE  •  Tremain's affecting novel, winner of the 2008 Orange Prize, charts the course of one broken-hearted man from Eastern Europe in London. (GBR790, $14.99)
 		  
The Way We Live Now  •  Anthony Trollope   • LITERATURE  •  A great masterpiece of storytelling, and a very sharp portrayal of the social, business and political life in London in the late 19th century. (GBR258, $12.95)
 		  
 
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