London Under" is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern tube stations. 240 pp.

Reviews

"There's plenty of marvelous information in the book about what lies beneath London. . . . Ackroyd mines historical anecdotes to great effect. . . . He is not just interested in London's hidden relics; he's interested in what they--and the idea of an underground--mean to a culture. London's underworld is a 'shadow or replica of the city, ' and it is also a shadow of ourselves and our thoughts, the stuff that's discovered when we open the trapdoor."
--"The Daily Beast
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"Eloquent and visceral."
--"Kirkus Reviews
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Praise for "London: The Biography"
"Magnificent. . . . Succeeds in animating on the page the life of one of the oldest and greatest . . . cities in the world."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"A wonderful book, a treasure of information and anecdote ... a book to be taken up again and again for the pleasures that lie within."
--"The Chicago Tribune"
"Ackroyd writes in a wonderfully graphic style that carries the reader throug