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Secret London Guide

A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar

Bill Nash author Rachel Howard author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Jonglez

Published:12th Oct '22

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** “The best alternative guide to London ever. An essential purchase.” ** TheLondonist.com

** “A fascinating London guidebook. Simply brilliant.” ** Thetraveleditor.com

Let Secret London guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating London guide book, now in its 4th edition. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 230 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret London guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

  • Where can you peer inside Richard Burton’s tent?
  • Whatever happened to Bedlam?
  • Where can you praise God, buy meatballs and have a sauna?
  • What's in the House of Dreams?
  • What’s growing quietly under your feet?
  • What’s the trick to instant weight loss?

 Far from the crowds and the usual cliches, London offers countless off-beat experiences and is home to any number of well-hidden treasures that are revealed only to residents and travellers who find their way off the beaten track. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew London well or would like to discover the other face of the city.

Secret London - An unusual guide is the original and still the best of all the many alternative London guides: accept no imitation. Authors Rachel Howard and Bill Nash have prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked.

The definitive insider’s guide to London. 

“The best guide to alternative London ever. An essential purchase.”

The Londonist.com

ISBN: 9782361956134

Dimensions: 190mm x 105mm x 150mm

Weight: 365g

288 pages

4th New edition