Londoners through a lens is a collection of photographs from the extensive Time Out picture gallery celebrating the some of the most distinctive inhabitants of the capital, both famous & unknown, for over a century. Over 150 black & white photographs are included covering a range of people in London life, from Albert Einstein & Screaming Lord Sutch to newspaper vendors & artists on the Thames. Each photograph has accompanying text detailing the history of the photograph & other interesting details. An introduction also explores the relationship between photography, perception & the past in London. ...

Eleven years after the Second World War, the curiosity of adventurous youth brought a boy with only a few words of English across the water. Coming from a small village in rural Westphalia, he could never quite shake off the awe of the big city. A camera was never far away, & he began to document his experience of life in the capital. London became a backdrop to scenes that never lost their mystery as Hallmann began to explore the history, the pageants, the art, the river, the markets, the fashions & the people.. . He learnt that by travelling on bus or Underground you could meet the world
- sandaled monks & stiletto-heeled damsels, heavies in chains & bovver boots & sneaks on platforms, preachers that would save your soul & some that would prefer your money. Collected here are the best photographs from three decades of street photography capturing the spirit of London & Londoners. Priceless moments are recorded. From the swinging sixties to the flares & platforms of the seventies to punks in the eighties, this is the buzzing atmosphere of late twentieth-century London.
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Londoners by Craig Taylor is a collection of Approx. 80 short stories told by people who live in the capital. The result is a kaleidoscopic view of London through the experiences of people from all walks of life: from the taxi driver & the artist to the protester, the cruiser, the squatter, the police officer & the civil engineer. Whether a Londoner or a tourist, these fascinating, colourful & personal accounts will draw you into the mind, heart & belly of the city. ...

On the outskirts of New York, a child`s swing turns gently in the breeze. Resting on it, propped at an odd angle, is the body of a young woman: naked, mutilated, & bound in silver duct tape. In the wounds on her chest, congealed blood pools in the shape of the letter T; the calling-card of a frenzied killer... Unfortunately for Artie Cohen, death is never far away. In London, where glamorous old-world emigres rub shoulders with the hungry young zealots of Putin`s Moscow, a hired gun with sadistic tastes has crashed the party. & where international espionage, business & corruption mingle, Artie might have to dance with the devil to save the life of a friend... ...

The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world`s best footballers
- & chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted windows. A group of buccaneering Russian oligarchs made colossal fortunes after the collapse of communism
- & many of them came to London to enjoy their new-found wealth. Londongrad tells for the first time the true story of their journeys from Moscow & St Petersburg to mansions in Mayfair, Knightsbridge & Surrey
- & takes you into a shimmering world of audacious multi-billion pound deals, outrageous spending & rancorous feuds. But while London`s flashiest restaurants echoed to Russian laughter & Bond Street shop-owners totted up their profits, darker events also played themselves out. The killing of ex-KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London to the death
- in a helicopter crash he all but predicted
- of Stephen Curtis, the lawyer to many of Britain`s richest Russians, chilled London`s Russians & many of those who know them. This is the story of how Russia`s wealth was harvested & brought to London
- some of it spent by Roman Abramovich on his beloved Chelsea Football Club, some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his battles with Russia`s all-powerful Vladimir Putin. Londongrad is a must-read for anyone interested in how vast wealth is created, the luxury it can buy & the power & intrigue it produces.





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This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole & into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums & secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gangsters & royalty that populate the city, their stories becoming curiouser & curiouser as layers of time & history are peeled back. Find out which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles & what lies behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of evolution & caused the Swedes to wage war against Britain. Do you believe in fairies? Do you know which Leadenhall site became a Nag`s Head tavern, morphing into the mighty East India Company, before taking flight as the futuristic Lloyds Building? Who named the Natural History Museum`s long-tailed dinosaur Mr Whippy? Spanning above & below ground, from the outer suburbs to the inner city, & from the medieval period to the modern day, Londonopolis is a celebration of the weird & the wonderful that makes the mysterious city of London so magical. ...

A paperback reissue of Londonopolis (9781849941655) This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole & into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums & secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gangsters & royalty that populate the city, their stories becoming curiouser & curiouser as layers of time & history are peeled back. Find out which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles & what lies behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of evolution & caused the Swedes to wage war against Britain. Do you believe in fairies? Do you know which Leadenhall site became a Nag`s Head tavern, morphing into the mighty East India Company, before taking flight as the futuristic Lloyds Building? Who named the Natural History Museum`s long-tailed dinosaur Mr Whippyspanning above & below ground, from the outer suburbs to the inner city, & from the medieval period to the modern day, Londonopolis is a celebration of the weird & the wonderful that makes the mysterious city of London so magical. ...

`ondonstani, Gautam Malkani`s electrifying debut, reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians & white boys (desis & goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents` generation. Set close to the Heathrow feed roads of Hounslow, Malkani shows us the lives of a gang of four young men: Hardjit the ring leader, a Sikh, violent, determined his caste stay pure; Ravi, determinedly tactless, a sheep following the herd; Amit, whose brother Arun is struggling to win the approval of his mother for the Hindu girl he has chosen to marry; & Jas who tells us of his journey with these three, desperate to win their approval, desperate too for Samira, a Muslim girl, which in this story can only have bad consequences. Together they cruise the streets in Amit`s enhanced Beemer, making a little money changing the electronic fingerprints on stolen mobile phones, a scam that leads them into more dangerous waters. Funny, crude, disturbing, written in the vibrant language of its protagonists -- a mix of slang, Bollywood, texting, Hindu & bastardised gangsta rap -- ` Londonstani` is about many things: tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, cross-cultural chirpsing techniques, the urban scene seeping into the mainstream, bling bling economics, `complicated family-related shit`. It is one of the most surprising British novels of recent years. ...

LONDONTOWN is a photographic love letter to this bustling world capital. Photographer Susannah Conway takes us beyond familiar sites like Buckingham Palace & the London Eye to capture an authentic local experience of the city. Readers will travel with her as she crisscrosses London, shooting all the hippest, most exciting & most historical neighborhoods, sampling the city`s effortless cool, vibrant street life & timeless savoir faire. Mixing signature Polaroid shots with modern digital photos, & with a foreword by the award-winning artist & designer Helen Storey, this book offers an intimate slice of London, whether you`re half a mile from Big Ben or all the way across the pond. ...

London`s 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings reveals the stories behind the capital`s strangest & most enigmatic buildings. While some are open to the public
- if you know who to ask
- others are strictly off limits, which only heightens the sense of mystery around them. Still others are so familiar that few ever stop to consider how curious they actually are. South of the river, for example, the city`s widest building at nearly 1, 000ft has been favourably compared to the Winter Palace. Elsewhere you can find an arts centre built of old shipping containers, a Victorian explorer lying dead in a tent, acres of secret government underground offices, & even a private tunnel used for running cable cars under the Thames. Think you know London? Think again.. .

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