About the Book:

Meet the real people who populated London from Victorian times to the second world war, featuring rarely seen colour photographs of market traders, music halls and old factories. Immerse yourself in a London long since gone, and whose faces are rarely remembered, but whose history informs everything in the city around us today.

About the Author:

London has been the main character in the work of Peter Ackroyd ever since his first novel, The Great Fire of London. His Hawksmoor won the Whitbread and the Guardian Fiction Prize, Chatterton was shortlisted for the Booker, London: the Biography won the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature.