Böcker av Dan Cruickshank

A deeply imaginative, street-by-street and meticulously researched biography of one of London's most vibrant and seductive districts.

Old Buildings and new ones tell their stories of colourful lives that have made up the character of a well-loved urban quarter.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016'Genial, erudite and companionable .

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.