LONDON PECULIARS: A GUIDE TO THE CITYS OFFBEAT PLACES (HB)

A peculiar can be defined as something that 'has eccentric or individual variations to the general or predicted pattern'. London, of course, is overflowing with them. This pocket-sized book takes you to the tent-shaped tomb designed for Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton; the last surviving porter's rest in London; a stone niche by a long-demolished foundling hospital where almost 15,000 infants were discarded over the 18th century; and many more peculiars - sometimes heroic, sometimes tragic, often amusing and always unexpected.