London: The Travel Guide Available to Purchase

My review of a Footprint Handbook is bound to start with a good pedigree: the volumes arrive, I look at them briefly and think them interesting then send them on to our reviewers; then the review arrives, invariably in highly flattering terms: so much so that we gave the publishers our outstanding achievement award three years ago. It makes a pleasant change to have one of their volumes I can lay claim to, if not as an expert then certainly as an informed user: I spent the first 18 years of my life just outside the city and for the...