The Little Book of London

Author: David Long
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752462628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
The Little Book of London is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium full of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. London's looniest laws, its most eccentric inhabitants, the realities of being royal and literally hundreds of wacky facts about the world's greatest city combine to make it required reading for visitors and locals alike.

The London Fashion Book

Author: Andrew Tucker
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847821174
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Journeys into the world of London's fashion scene and captures the colorful characters that have helped create its recent rise in popularity, complete with full-color photos throughout.

Secret London

Author: Rachel Howard
Publisher: Jonglez
ISBN: 9782361952808
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This guide to London's most peculiar and under-the-radar bars and restaurants is for serious foodies, intrepid drinkers, urban explorers -- and anyone curious to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in London.

London Villages

Author: Zena Alkayat
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0711276226
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
An intimate guide to the villages of London, filled with great ideas for days out which will delight tourists and locals alike.

London Belongs to Me

Author: Norman Collins
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141191244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 839

Book Description
It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; tinned food-loving Mr Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs Vizzard (whose head is turned by her new lodger, a self-styled 'Professor of Spiritualism'); and flashy young mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray into stolen cars descends into something much, much worse ... Includes an introduction by Ed Glinert, as well as explanatory footnotes.

Oulipo Compendium

Author: Harry Mathews
Publisher: Make Now Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
A late 20th-century kabala, a labyrinth of literary secrets that will lure the uninitiated into rethinking everything they know about books and writing. The definitive encyclopedia of contemporary word-magic.

The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything

Author: Jonn Elledge
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472276485
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge. Covering everything from the furthest known galaxies to the murky origins of oyster ice cream, inside you will find a discussion of how one might determine the most average-sized country in the world; details of humanity's most ridiculous wars; and, at last, the answer to who would win in a fight between Harry Potter and Spider-Man. Bizarre, brilliant and filled with the unexpected, The Compendium covers the breadth and depth of human experience, weaving its way through words and numbers, science and the arts, the spiritual and the secular. It's a feast of facts for a hungry mind. Includes entries on the cosmos, the human planet, questions of measurement, history/politics, the natural world, leisure and many 'oddities' that don't fit elsewhere...

A Book of Book Lists

Author: Alex Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352253
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from prisoners' favourite books to MPs' most borrowed books, these lists are proof that a person's bookcase tells you everything you need to know about them, and sometimes more besides."--

Pentagram

Author: Pentagram Design
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
This book documents the unique working methods and products of one of the world's best-known design companies from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. For the first time, a wide range of the Pentagram partners' internationally acclaimed work - from corporate identity to architecture and book design - is surveyed and used to illustrate the many different forms of thinking that design may take: from narrative to parody and pun. All the Pentagram partners have contributed essays on their particular preoccupations, while special sections examine the implications of the client-designer relationship and the Pentagram company's own structure, personnel and methodology. A fascinating peak behind the scenes, this book permits a penetrative insight into how one of the world's most energetic and prominent design companies functions, in everyday reality, to produce the astounding works for which it is famous.

Bloody London

Author: Declan McHugh
Publisher: Vacation Work Publications
ISBN: 9781780590691
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones.