A companion to the author’s popular A History of London in Fifty Lives, the book explores 2,000 years of the capital’s history by directing the reader to sites where it is still possible to see and understand surviving relics from different era from Roman, Saxon and Norman right up to the post-war period.
David Long spent 25 years writing features for national newspapers and editing glossy magazines before turning to books, initially as a ghostwriter. Since then, under his own name, he is the author of many successful non-fiction titles for adults and children. With an engaging historical focus, his books have been well received by readers and reviewers alike and translated into a dozen languages. In 2017 his book Survivors was the Blue Peter Book of the Year. He lives in Suffolk, is the father of two boys, and has made regular appearances in the Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Pe...
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