Jerry White

A Tale of Two Cities

London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920

By Philip Davies

Richard Canning

Satan on the Strand

City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley

By Phil Baker

Gillian Tindall

Last Orders at the Dockers’ Inn

Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher

By John Davis

William Whyte

The Great Wen Riseth

London: 1870–1914 – A City at Its Zenith

By Andrew Saint

Alan Allport

Snowdrops & Doodlebugs

The Battle of London 1939–45: Endurance, Heroism and Frailty under Fire

By Jerry White

Daisy Dunn

Changing of the Guard

Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine

By Will Loxley

Frances Spalding

Aesthete of Gordon Square

Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism

By Mark Hussey

Ian Hislop

Six Of The Best

London Fields

By Martin Amis

Cosmo Landesman

Sexy Idiot

Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

By Clancy Sigal

The London Lover: My Weekend that Lasted Thirty Years

By Clancy Sigal

David Stafford

Leading Questions

The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre

By Helen Fry

Jonathan Mirsky

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

Inside Notting Hill

By Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson

John Wells

Claud Cockburn

A N Wilson

Enemy of Promise

Henrietta Garnett

Living in the Shade of Suicide

A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son’s Search for His Mother

By Jeremy Gavron

Catherine Peters

‘Stink and Darknesse’

London Fog: The Biography

By Christine L Corton

Colin Wilson

Gin Doesn’t Stain

Soho in the Fifties

By Daniel Farson

Philip Oakes

Local Hero

Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia: The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho Dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross

By Paul Willetts