A Reader's Guide to Writer's London

by IanCunningham (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.45

  A Reader's Guide to Writer's London is a definitive practical guide to the city which has been the centre of English literary life from the age of Chaucer onwards and the home to many men and women of genius. The only colour-illustrated guide to literary London; The nearest competition is the Penguin paperback by Ed Glinert (?12.99) which is unillustrated. Unlike the Glinert book which lists facts in an encylopaedic and uninteresting manner, is often wrong and misses out many areas of outer London, A Reader's Guide is the perfect handbook to lead you all over London, district by district and the coherent, and lively narrative makes it also the perfect bedside companion. In the same prion series as A Reader's Guide to Writer's Britain which sold 15,000 copies in the UK in hardback and has just had great reviews for the recent paperback. Packed with illustrations including approximately 200 specially commissioned photographs of London today and 200 more pictures of authors, manuscripts and related memorabilia. Focus on more recent writers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd as well as including all the classics such as Dickens and Johnson.