Jonathan Mirsky

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

Inside Notting Hill

By Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson

D J Taylor

‘He Wrote This Specially For Me’

Jonathan Meades

Going Underground

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

By Gillian Tindall

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

Philip Oakes

Local Hero

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

By Paul Willetts

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

Jonathan Mirsky

This Is What Bombs Do

Into the Darkness: An Account of 7/7

By Peter Zimonjic

Jeremy Lewis

Grub Street Grouser

Julian Maclaren-Ross: Selected Letters

By Paul Willetts (ed)

Frances Wilson

Words of Love

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910–1939

By Katie Roiphe

Stephen Halliday

Eastenders

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

By Sarah Wise

Robert Nye

Love’s Lodgings Lost

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

By Charles Nicholl

Tristan Quinn

Shadows Boxing

Night Haunts: A Journey through the London NIght

By Sukhdev Sandhu

On Brick Lane

By Rachel Lichtenstein

Alice Pitman

Retail Heaven

Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge

By Lindy Woodhead

William Anthony Hay

London Burning

The First Day of the Blitz

By Peter Stansky

David Kynaston

East End Chronicles

Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Family and Kinship in East London

By Michael Young and Peter Willmott

Hugh Massingberd

This Green Plot

The Park: The Story of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park

By David Conville

Leslie Mitchell

Capital Gains

London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing

By Jerry White

Paul Binding

Cabbies and Caves

The Tower of London: Tales of Victorian London

By Natsume Soseki (Translated from the Japanese and introduced by Damian Flanagan)

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)

Gillian Tindall

Charting the Capital

London: A History in Maps

By Peter Barber