Valerie Grove

Street Smug

Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-ups

By William Miller

Jane O'Grady

Hamblecha of Notting Hill

meets the mother of the Carnival

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Maybe It’s Because He Was a Londoner

The Life of Thomas More

By Peter Ackroyd

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

Martyn Bedford

A Novelist at Last

How the Dead Live

By Will Self

Christopher Hart

Joyful Logorrhoea

King of the City

By Michael Moorcock

Tim Richardson

Opposites Attract

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

By Margaret Willes

David Stafford

Leading Questions

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

By Helen Fry

Christopher Woodward

Capital Losses

The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City

By Iain Sinclair

Martin Vander Weyer

Brought to Account

Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694–2013

By David Kynaston

Anne Somerset

The Heat is On

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By Rosemary Ashton

Jonathan Mirsky

What’s Behind the Blue Door?

Inside Notting Hill

By Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson

Michael Bloch

Angels & Demons

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

By Peter Ackroyd

Dominic Green

Urban Warfare

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

By Mike Rapport

Jonathan Beckman

For Queen & Company

London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

By Stephen Alford

D J Taylor

‘He Wrote This Specially For Me’

Catherine Peters

Down and Out

Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison

By Jerry White

John Valdimir Price

Holland House

Holland House

By Leslie Mitchell

Vicky Pryce

City Slickers

Crash, Bang, Wallop: The Inside Story of London’s Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World

By Iain Martin