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Book Reviews by subject:
London & Architecture & Engineering

December 2024 Issue

Thomas Blaikie

You Mean There’s No Billiard Room?

London’s Lost Interiors

By Steven Brindle

March 2024 Issue

William Whyte

Where Wren Meets Richard Rogers

The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London’s Financial District

By Amy Thomas

November 2022 Issue

Jerry White

A Tale of Two Cities

London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920

By Philip Davies

William Boyd

Where George Eliot Meets Mick Jagger

Built in Chelsea: Two Millennia of Architecture and Townscape

By Dan Cruickshank

February 2022 Issue

Paul Lay

Palazzos by the Thames

London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650

By Manolo Guerci

December 2021 Issue

William Whyte

The Great Wen Riseth

London: 1870–1914 – A City at Its Zenith

By Andrew Saint

July 2020 Issue

Charles Elliott

Borneo on Thames

Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew

By Kate Teltscher

September 2016 Issue

William Whyte

The Battle of Big Ben

Mr Barry’s War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834

By Caroline Shenton

March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Meades

Capital Gains?

Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century

By Rowan Moore

July 2004 Issue

Tim Heald

Another Man’s Palace

Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History

By Simon Thurley

November 2012 Issue

Harry Mount

Sublime to the Ridiculous

Greater London: The Story of the Suburbs

By Nick Barratt

Great Houses of London

By James Stourton (Photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg)

April 2013 Issue

Paul Johnson

Talk of the Town

Holland House: A History of London’s Most Celebrated Salon

By Linda Kelly