Ebook: The Blue Riband
Author: Peter York
- Tags: London Underground Limited, Piccadilly Line, London (England), Social life and customs, 21st century, London (England), Social life and customs, 20th century, Subways, Social aspects, England, London, Manners and customs, Subways, Social aspects, England, London
- Series: Penguin lines
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: England--London., London (England)
- Language: English
- epub
Peter York, co-author of the 80s bestseller, The Sloane Ranger Handbook, charts the progress of the dream of grandeur and aspiration in London - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin
Also available in a boxset
'Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O'Farrell and social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon and notice its nature and its people. Read individually they're delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city' Evening Standard
'Exquisitely diverse' The Times
'Eclectic and broad-minded ... beautifully designed' Tom...