Combining a historical setting, a supernatural theme and a compelling and likeable heroine, this is a novel for teen girls.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

Though it covers less than a decade, Pepys' diary offers a detailed insight into a period and a personality, for he noted events in both public and private life. It includes passages on the plague and the Great Fire of London.

'London: A Pilgrimage' is every bit a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty stricken, gin-swilling London of the seventeenth century, written in an astute, bold and gripping style.

A social history of London in World War II, throughout which a spirit of defiance united all sections of society. Based on published sources as well as interviews, letters and diaries, the book presents a record of a population under siege.

A glorious novel set in seventeenth-century London, and in the fairy world.

Moorcock's work ranks with Peter Acroyd, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith in defining London.

Saul is hauled out of bed by the police and charged with hurling his father from a top-floor window. While lying dazed in a cell, he is visited by a sharp-featured stranger who leads him on a gravity-defying escape. After introducing himself as Saul's uncle, King Rat, he explains Saul is half rat.

Offers an account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.

A sequel to With No One As Witness , this book is a story describing a boy bought up in North Kensington where drugs, neglect and violence are common.

'Londonstani', Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut, reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents' generation.

What many visitors expect to find in London - pageantry, history, living tradition - is dramatically at odds with the experience of living here. This guide gives you the whole of this bewildering city. It offers coverage of historic London, a city containing six World Heritage Sites, but there are also cultural field reports from various quarters.

This unique guide allows you privileged access to London's best-kept secrets in the company of those who know the city most intimately: its foremost writers and artists. A valuable addition to the series that began with 'City Secrets: Rome'.

Presents the docks of the east and flows against the Thames tide westwards, following the commercial pulse of London from the disembarkment of goods at Tilbury to the crowds of shoppers on Oxford Street, before winding on majestically to the grand buildings of the City and Westminster.

Since Victorian times, London's Underground has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and has played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. This wide-ranging history of the Underground celebrates the vision and determination of the Victorian pioneers who conceived this revolutionary transport system and the men who tunnelled to make the Tube. From ..

The extraordinary Maisie Dobbs returns in her second case

Pauline, was rescued from a shipwreck as a baby. She longs to be an actress. Petrova, is a Russian orphan. She is happiest when playing with cars and engines. Polly was handed over with a pair of ballet shoes. But one thing they have in common is, that with money running out at home and Uncle Matthew missing, the sisters want to stay together.

Maisie Dobbs takes on her first investigation in 1920s London

In The Italian Boy, Sarah Wise not only investigates the case of the London Burkers but also, by making use of an incredibly rich archival store, the lives of ordinary lower-class Londoners.

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George.