Overview
There are more than two
hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most
famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of
today’s finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are
coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels,
dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno
cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common.
Vividly
evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing
snapshots of the city’s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of
money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, A London Year is the perfect book for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.