The Guardian Bookshop makes over 180,000 books available with up to 40% discount, as well as highlighting some of our favourite publications in each genre.
Find out more.
A prodigiously well-researched and vividly detailed journey through the streets, market, sewers, rivers, slums, cemeteries, theatres, gin palaces and vast institutions of Victorian London, which so inspired and permeated the works of Charles Dickens. With plenty of maps and illustrations it's a fascinating and original contribution to the literature surrounding his novels and the period in which Dickens lived.
Synopsis
From the bestselling popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of Britain's - and the world's - greatest novelists: Charles Dickens.
