NO FREE PARKING (CURIOUS HISTORY / LONDON / MONOPOLY (PB)

A fascinating history of London, framed through its Monopoly streets and the colourful stories behind them. The game of Monopoly has painted London's story across cheerful coloured tiles, but those Monopoly streets live and breathe - they open up whole new ways of thinking about our history. The mobs have taken to our streets. The overlords have taken them back. Wars have spilled out into them. Lovers have snuck around them, and fires have raged through them. In a city of rags and riches, where folk hero Dick Whittington believed the streets were paved with gold, anything could happen - and everything has.