London possesses a literary heritage which is unique and in large part
unrivaled in any city in the world.
In this book, literary London is presented through its authors and
literature: William Shakespeare, Andrea Levy, G.A. Henty, Geoffrey
Chaucer, P.L. Travers, Samuel Pepys, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens,
Una Marson, Joe Orton, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Phillis
Wheatley, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Katherine Mansfield, Harry Potter and
Samuel Selvon to name just a very few. The text takes the reader on a
series of walks, each of which is original and unique, the result of
twenty years' exploration of this wonderful city by the author. Detailed
maps have been specially commissioned.
The text is accompanied by over 80 original photographs taken by the
author.
In these pages you will find the details of hundreds of writers and
their works; wherever you walk in the great city of London - even if
solely in imagination from an armchair - the experience is going to be
extraordinary.