A history of London

Stephen Inwood's vivid and exhaustive account of London's past takes readers from the first days of Roman Londinium to the frenetic artistic, musical and political life of London in the last decades of the twentieth century. 'Inwood's book has it all, so much so that, coming to the end, the reader wants to start over again' Sunday Times 'An utterly winning work, erudite yet entertaining...This is a wonderful book' Financial Times 'Inwood proves himself a heroic reader, absorbing and filtering all that is to be known about a city for which he has a genuine and abiding affection' Daily Telegraph As sprawling and richly textured as London itself' Independent