Curiocity is the most beautiful and unusual guidebook ever written about London. The authors reimagine the city in twenty-six distinct ways, one for each letter of the alphabet, considering how London might look from a child's perspective or mapping the airspace above the city.
Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose are old friends andCuriocity is their first book. Henry likes mazes, maps and literature. He leads cheese walks through the City and has lectured on Geoffrey Chaucer on the London Eye. Matt Lloyd-Rose has been a primary teacher, police officer and social researcher in London. He wrote this book while living in Buenos Aires.
The most ingenious, insightful, inspiring, intoxicating, and simply
interesting guide to the great city that I have ever seen
*Philip Pullman*
Remarkable ... a nerdy Londoner's paradise ... an exquisite
450-page cross between an encyclopaedia and an artwork
*Evening Standard*
The greatest book about London published in modern times ... an
illuminated manuscript for the 21st century city
*Londonist*
London's bookshops and libraries are filled with printed guides to
the city but few (if any) are as comprehensive as Curiocity
*Creative Review*
Utterly extraordinary
*Tom Holland*
An endlessly fascinating guide to London ... an eccentric lexical
juggernaut ... I doubt that anything of such crazy magnitude will
be attempted again in a hurry
*Evening Standard*
Here is something different [...] composed of fresh flashes of
insight [...] constructed as a cabinet of curiosities, the literary
equivalent of Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The
work [the authors] have put into it is formidable, the
collaboration they have won from contributors, illustrators and
publishers quite breathtaking.
*Times Literary Supplement*
The authors' delight in London trivia is infectious
*Guardian*
A glorious treasure trove
*Esquire*
A beautifully produced miscellany of fascinating facts about
London. Wonderful illustrations are added to intriguing nuggets of
information on a huge range of subjects from street cries to
earthstars. An object of beauty in itself
*The Oldie*
Reimagines the 'guidebook' in the same way that Peter Ackroyd's
London: the Biography reinvented historical writing about the
capital. And just as Ackroyd set a benchmark, every new guide to
London will now be viewed with reference to Curiocity. [...]
However well you think you know London, you will discover something
new on virtually every page, and the things you know well will be
seen completely differently. Highly recommended
*The London Society*
Beautifully illustrated, quirky and irreverent
*Danny Dorling*
Incredibly clever and gorgeous. It's like a London treasure hunt -
an unexpected explorers' map of a city I've lived in all my life
and thought I knew
*Bidisha*
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