WALKING THE WEST END (PB)

The West End of London has long been a magnet to those attracted by impressive architecture. This book delves into its eight distinctive areas - Mayfair, St James's, Fitzrovia, Bloomsbury, Soho, Covent Garden and Strand, Westminster and Whitehall, and Belgravia - to present the stories behind the facades of buildings old and new, taking the reader down side-streets into corners that even Londoners tend to miss. It reveals who lived where, and how a new London developed alongside the Roman-walled medieval city to become the gilded ‘west end’.