books

cover of echolands by duncan mackay

Book Review: Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica

03/05/2025 donbrown 0

This is a wonderful, scholarly and fun read, an exploration of history and of landscape, as author and archeologist Duncan Mackay follows the Boudiccan uprising […]

Some more books worth your time

23/01/2025 donbrown 0

I keep saying I’ll do more book reviews, and then failing to, so the next good intention is to post up here books that I’ve […]

Support this blog by buying books

11/12/2024 donbrown 0

For quite some time I’ve had links from book reviews and such like to Amazon, and in nearly ten years of blogging I’ve made the […]

cover of vic keegan's lost london 2 book

Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London 2

08/06/2024 donbrown 0

A coffee in the Onion Garden with the inestimable Vic Keegan – journalist, oenologist, poet and historian of London. His ‘Lost London’ column ran weekly […]

Book Review | Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

[This review was first published on The London Society website in February 2022] As a London Blue Badge Guide I take Americans around London – the Tower, […]

Book Review | High Buildings, Low Morals by Rob Baker

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

[This review was first published on The London Society website in November 2017] Fans of Rob Baker’s blog ‘Another Nickel in the Machine‘ and his […]

Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

[This review was first published on The London Society Website in February 2021] Followers of the OnLondon twitter feed will know that every week, among the pieces […]

Book Review | Bus Fare by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

Bus Fare: Collected Writings on London’s Most Loved Means of Transport by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr, published by AA Publishing. [This review was first published […]

Recent Reading – books about Winston Churchill

19/03/2022 donbrown 0

I’m about to start several tours for (mainly) Americans who are following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill. We’ll be doing Chartwell, Blenheim, Bletchley Park, […]

Some recent reading – London books

29/10/2021 donbrown 0

One thing that I always meant to do, but have never actually got around to doing, is to put up lists of favourite or recommended […]