When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About the Greatest City on Earth by David Long
Millions live there, millions more visit each year - but how many really know London?
Find out:
- How New York's famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square
- When Primrose Hill almost gained a pyramid even larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
- Why about 640 people came to be drowned in the Thames in a single night
- What the royal family might do to escape London if the balloon ever goes up