Books
Top 3: Marchmont Street hangouts, WC1
This summer explore the capital’s most famous LGBT+ bookshop, a photography cafe – and a cavernous second-hand treasure trove
The British Library’s iconic St Pancras building is 20 years old
This unique Grade I listed structure has been packing in visitors for two decades
Noshville is back in town (and so is Cerys)
Kerb’s massive Americana hoedown lands on Granary Square. And just a few metres away is a very different kind of festival
Why monogamy is dead
Comedian Rosie Wilby’s book tracks her journey from one-woman-woman to ‘playfairer’
The rise and rise of the unfashionable ‘burbs
A new book by Peter Whitfield examines maps from the last few centuries – and, in this extract, the rise of Holloway’s ‘uneasy’ suburbia
‘I’ve never really kept a diary. But I am an inveterate reader of other people’s’
Writer Travis Elborough on why he’s trawled through personal journals spanning the entire 20th Century
Is it a bird, is it a plane…no it’s Jeremy Corbyn
A new comic book celebrates the unique quirks of the PM’s #1 adversary
‘It always feels like Sunday in a park’
Writer Travis Elborough explores the social and political significance of green spaces in his new book
The new cookbook written by extraordinary Londoners
Slices of Life delves into the private and culinary lives of the capital’s unique characters
Top 5: Lamb’s Conduit Street shops
A new book by Emma McCarthy handpicks London’s hottest 200 retail spots
