London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's History (Strangest)

by Tom Quinn

Overview

Take a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities. This book is packed with amazing things you didn’t know about Britain’s capital, like the fact that it’s still forbidden to run, carry an umbrella or whistle in the Burlington Arcade, and the fat lamppost at the corner of Trafalgar Square that is secretly a tiny prison cell. And did you know that the entrance to Buckingham Palace you see from the Mall is actually the back door and not the front? The stories within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910232880
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	02/11/2016
Series:	Strangest
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tom Quinn is a journalist, juggler, orange peel collector and expert on Victorian fish painters, who spends much of his time travelling round Britain looking for quirky subjects to write about. He has written five titles in the best-selling Strangest series. Tom also writes occasional obituaries for The Times and edits Country Business magazine.