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A set of eight opinionated London pocket guides. This growing series is for people who don’t want more information, they want the right information.
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An Opinionated Guide to East London
This is the second edition of our unashamedly biased, deeply opinionated guide to our local area. With 65 suggestions of where to eat, sleep, shop and drink, this pocket-sized companion is the ultimate guide to the ever-changing face of East London, filled with beautiful photography, pithy reviews and a neighbourhood map showing where each place of the 66 places is located. It’s a must for East London locals and first-time visitors alike.
An Opinionated Guide to London Architecture
An opinionated guide to the most exciting, arresting buildings in the capital. Packed full of original photography, we tell you about the 54 must-see buildings and why you should visit. Whether Classical, Contemporary, Modernist, Brutalist or beyond. If it’s great, it’s in here.
An Opinionated Guide to Vegan London
If you’re reading this, you don’t need us to tell you that vegan food is a good thing. Or that London is a world capital for it. Or that it can taste amazing and isn’t all green or brown. What you need is a pithy, opinionated guide to over 50 of the best, most stylish eateries for vegan deliciousness. Well… here it is.
An Opinionated Guide to London Green Spaces
London is the greatest green city on Earth. Half its area is green spaces, including 3,000 parks. Luckily, you don’t need to know them all. Only these 50. Whether you want walks, beauty, views or picnics, this unashamedly opinionated guide tells you exactly where to go for London’s ultimate green escapes.
An Opinionated Guide to Independent London
In an age of behemoth brands, visiting local independent shops has never been more rewarding – or important. London has an army of small owner-run indies and we’ve picked the very best. From artisan delis to stationery hubs, these shops are champions of friendly service and expert knowledge. Go out, support and enjoy. The book includes 54 shops and is packed with original photography, insider tips and interviews with the owners.
An Opinionated Guide to London Pubs
London is full of awful pubs. That’s why you need to know the great ones. Whether you’re after craft brews, fine dining, cosy corners or sun-drenched beer gardens, you’ll find the very best of them in this pithy, pint-sized guide.
An Opinionated Guide to Sweet London
Whether you’re after decadent doughnuts, an elegant afternoon tea or rich cinnamon swirls, our small but highly opinionated guide will lead you straight to sugar, spice and only the best things nice.
An Opinionated Guide to Kids' London
People think London is awful for kids. Here is a big secret: it’s incredible. Where else can you find 3,000 parks, endless interactive exhibits and a magic garden where Henry VIII once walked? This is a grown-up guide to having serious fun with your little ones.
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'Portrait of Humanity Vol 3', 320pp, cloth spine, 151 x 199mm.
In collaboration with 1854 Media/British Journal of Photography
These astonishing portraits, taken in over 50 countries, capture a year like no other in living memory. Though a global pandemic has made many of us feel isolated, the faces and stories in this book are a testament to our collective will to connect, rebuild and keep going.
With an introduction by Otegha Uwagba.
This is the first edition.
ISBN: 978-1-910566-94-7
'Portrait of Humanity Vol 2', 320pp, hardback, cloth spine, 151 x 199mm.
In collaboration with 1854 Media/British Journal of Photography
This collection of 200 intimate portraits and stories – shot by photographers all over the world – reminds us of our common struggles, our deep bonds and, perhaps most importantly in light of the global pandemic, the restorative power of community.
‘Humanity is now standing at a crossroads. We must decide which path we want to take.’ – Greta Thunberg
With an introduction by Gemma Padley.
This is the first edition.
ISBN: 978-1-910566-73-2
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'Portrait of Humanity Vol 3', 320pp, cloth spine, 151 x 199mm.
In collaboration with 1854 Media/British Journal of Photography
These astonishing portraits, taken in over 50 countries, capture a year like no other in living memory. Though a global pandemic has made many of us feel isolated, the faces and stories in this book are a testament to our collective will to connect, rebuild and keep going.
With an introduction by Otegha Uwagba.
This is the first edition.
ISBN: 978-1-910566-94-7
'Portrait of Humanity Vol 2', 320pp, hardback, cloth spine, 151 x 199mm.
In collaboration with 1854 Media/British Journal of Photography
This collection of 200 intimate portraits and stories – shot by photographers all over the world – reminds us of our common struggles, our deep bonds and, perhaps most importantly in light of the global pandemic, the restorative power of community.
‘Humanity is now standing at a crossroads. We must decide which path we want to take.’ – Greta Thunberg
With an introduction by Gemma Padley.
This is the first edition.
ISBN: 978-1-910566-73-2
Portrait of Britain Vol 2
'Portrait of Britain Vol 2', 336pp, hardback, cloth spine, 151 x 199mm.
In collaboration with 1854 Media/British Journal of Photography
Introduced by Ekow Eshun
A second volume featuring 200 of the most compelling portraits taken in Britain during this time of national soul-searching. The photos are accompanied by wonderful quotes from the photographers.
'The portraits in this book show a country unscripted, revealed page by page in all its joy, its sorrows and anxieties, its accidental beauty... There's no mystery to being British. You just have to be yourself.' – Ekow Eshun, from the Introduction
ISBN: 978-1-910566-54-1
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'Afro Vegan: Family recipes from a British-Nigerian kitchen'. Text and photography by Zoe Alakija. Edited by Harry Adès. 176pp, hardback, 170 x 230mm.
A vegan cookbook that draws its breath from the explosive colours, contrasts, cultures and flavours of West Africa.
Inspired by Zoe’s British-Nigerian heritage, these eclectic fusion recipes – from jollof arancini to plantain brownies – give a playful, contemporary twist to the joy-infused food of her childhood.
An Opinionated Guide to Vegan London
'An Opinionated Guide to Vegan London'. Text by Sara Kiyo Popowa. Photography by Sam A. Harris, 160pp, paperback, 162 x 112mm. Contains 53 locations, an introduction, a map and top recommendations.
If you’re reading this, you don’t need us to tell you that vegan food is a good thing. Or that London is a world capital for it. Or that it can taste amazing and isn’t all green or brown. What you need is a pithy, opinionated guide to the best, most stylish eateries for vegan deliciousness. Well… here it is.
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Illustrated with the most exquisite 18th-century artworks, The Botanical City reveals the hidden secrets of plants and flowers growing on your doorstep. Discover the wonder of urban weeds and wildflowers, their healing powers and poisons, the ancient wisdom and folklore, and get practical ideas for cooking and craft, plus expert tips on how to grow and harvest them yourself.
The Urban Forager: Find and Cook Wild Food in the City
Hawthorn berry ketchup, cherry blossom shortbread, nettle ravioli, elderflower fritters, cowslip summer rolls... these are just some of the tasty and surprising dishes you can make from wild food found in your city. With expert advice from professional forager Wross Lawrence alongside elegant photography, this pocket-sized hardback explains how to identify 32 easy-to-find plants in the city and cook up a wild feast.
We were all foragers before the invention of the supermarket. And our cities, despite appearing grey, are in fact wildly green. Whether in parks, along canals or on your own street, there is an abundance of delicious food hiding in plain sight. Reconnect with nature and enjoy making these surprisingly easy recipes.
Includes original photography and illustrations, 32 vegetarian recipes and top tips for urban foraging. The information in the book can be applied to cities within the North Temperate Zone.
Botanical
From Paris to Prague, from Glasgow to Geneva, photographer Samuel Zeller captures the strange beauty of exotic plants seen through the dappled glass of greenhouses. These images reveal a rare serenity found in the heart of each city.
An Opinionated Guide to London Green Spaces
London is the greatest green city on Earth. Half its area is green spaces, including 3,000 parks. Luckily, you don’t need to know them all. Only these 50. Whether you want walks, beauty, views or picnics, this unashamedly opinionated guide tells you exactly where to go for London’s ultimate green escapes.
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Unseen London
London is one of the world’s most photographed cities, so you might think there’s nothing left to see. But you’d be wrong. Through the eyes of 25 contemporary photographers you can venture along hidden canals, around notorious housing estates, through surreal street scenes and deep underground. This is London as it is today, and as you’ve never seen it before.
Hackney, East London, is well known for its vibrant creative community. Jenny Lewis spent four years in and out of studios across the borough photographing a tribe of artists who over time have defined the area. Painters, illustrators, filmmakers, jewellers, ceramicists and fashion designers invite us into their studios and share their private thoughts about the creative process.
London Nights
This collection of historic and contemporary images features work from over 60 photographers who reveal the city after hours: unnerving, beautiful, eerie, energised – sometimes all at once. Step into the night and discover a darker, richer side to the capital.
After the London 2011 riots, young photographer Julian Mährlein set out to capture the faces and voices of inner-city teenagers. The resulting portraits, shot on the streets with natural light, reveal the surprisingly tender side of a generation so often misrepresented and which faces a world in profound flux.
Outdoor swimmers, bright-eyed new mothers, hungover footballers, discarded flowers and dark ethereal landscapes; each project in this photographic collection reveals hidden narratives, subtle beauty and unexpected humour in
London’s most diverse and vibrant area.
I've Lived in East London for 86 1/2 Years
Joseph Markovitch has left London only once to go to the seaside with his mother. He loves Nicolas Cage, has five sugars in his tea, would have married a six foot two Hispanic woman but in the end had such bad chest catarrh he never had a girlfriend.
Millions pass through the square mile, also known as the City of London, yet few are aware of its true significance. These photographs of people surrounded by the City’s imposing architecture, combined with texts from an acclaimed historian, begin to decode one of the most cryptic and fascinating parts of the capital.
Back in the 1970s, when it was still acceptable to talk, kiss and even smoke on the London Underground, Mike Goldwater spent years documenting chance moments of intimacy and humour across this iconic network of tunnels that live beneath the capital.
Renowned photographer Iain McKell spent two years immersed in a community of young female artists, documenting their unique performances, parties and personalities. The resulting visual diary is a celebration of freedom and self-expression, and a reminder to embrace the most creative parts of who we are.
Photographer Joshua Blackburn has visited all 462* launderettes in London. The resulting pictures are not just a portrait of a much-loved institution but of a city itself: full of life, colour, faded nostalgia and a whole load of dirty laundry.
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'In Your Face', 128pp, cloth spine, 222mm x 160mm.
Paul Trevor’s extreme close-ups, made spontaneously on the streets of east London, capture Britain’s perennial social divide. They contrast the people in The City with those in the nearby market of Brick Lane. Shot during Thatcher’s reign, the imagery is as fresh and relevant today as it was then.
‘This series is a new twist on the street photo, but totally unlike anything I have seen before or since.’ – Martin Parr
Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane
'Once Upon a Time in Brick Lane', 144pp, cloth spine, 197mm x 256mm. Afterword by Alan Gilbey.
Paul Trevor, one of the great unsung heroes of British documentary photography, spent many years during the 70s and 80s capturing life on Brick Lane, London’s most iconic East End street. Published here for the very first time, these images, full of humour, grit, love and surprise, capture a vibrant time before the area went through dramatic social change.
Paul Trevor began to make pictures in his Brick Lane neighbourhood after abandoning his job as an accountant and deciding to become a photographer at the age of 25. His photographs have been exhibited internationally since the 1970s and are in public and private collections worldwide.
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'Butlin's Holiday Camp 1982', 128pp, cloth spine, 156mm x 196mm. With an introduction by the photographer.
With its ‘glamorous grandmother’ competitions and endless entertainment, Butlin’s in the 80s was the ultimate British package holiday. Barry Lewis’ glorious photographs, taken during a particularly wet summer at Skegness, capture a defiant national spirit at a time when Billy Butlin’s original vision of ‘fun for all the family’ was under threat from cheap foreign travel and the faltering English weather.
'Miami Beach 1988-1995', 144pp, cloth binding with tip-in image, 210mm x 195mm.'
Fashionistas and retirees, drag queens and bodybuilders, waiters and wanderers: these sumptuous black and white photographs taken by Barry Lewis capture the rich colour of Miami Beach in the early 90s. After two decades of drugs, corruption and violence the coastal strip had come back to life and the party was just beginning…
Barry Lewis is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in many international publications including The Sunday Times and Life magazine. Barry worked at Butlin’s in the 60s after leaving school, returned to the Skegness camp in 1982 on a photography assignment to undertake this project. We published Barry's previous book, Miami Beach 1988-1995, in 2019.
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Hotel Carpets by Bill Young
From Austin to Amsterdam, Lille to Las Vegas, this book shares the mesmerising, bizarre (and sometimes questionable) carpets found in hotel lobbies all over the world. Bill Young, a US pilot, finds himself in a lot of cities often with camera, time and carpet to hand. His photos are enjoyed by his 400,000 followers on instagram and now an edit of the most striking designs appear in this playful paperback alongside Bill's irreverent commentary.
Bill Young is a US pilot from Dallas, Texas.
Butlin's Holiday Camp 1982 by Barry Lewis
With its ‘glamorous grandmother’ competitions and endless entertainment, Butlin’s in the 80s was the ultimate British package holiday. Barry Lewis’ glorious photographs, taken during a particularly wet summer at Skegness, capture a defiant national spirit at a time when Billy Butlin’s original vision of ‘fun for all the family’ was under threat from cheap foreign travel and the faltering English weather.
Funland by Rob Ball
From Blackpool to Brighton, and Barry Island to Brightlingsea, these richly-detailed photographs capture the candyfloss colours and faded nostalgia of a seaside culture that is peculiarly (yet wonderfully) British.
Miami Beach by Barry Lewis
Fashionistas and retirees, drag queens and bodybuilders, waiters and wanderers: these sumptuous black and white photographs taken by Barry Lewis capture the rich colour of Miami Beach in the early 90s. After two decades of drugs, corruption and violence the coastal strip had come back to life and the party was just beginning…
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The East End in Colour 1960-1980 by David Granick
One of our best-selling books. These previously unpublished photographs by David Granick capture the streets and waterways of London’s East End in the warm hues of Kodachrome film. Journey back in time to a place now long vanished.
The East End in Colour 1980-1990 by Tim Brown
This second volume by a different photographer, Tim Brown, picks up the story in 1980 as East London enters an extraordinary decade of transformation. Focusing on the Docklands and the further reaches of the East End, Tim took these pictures on 35mm film between shifts of driving trains on London Underground's Central Line.
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Paradise Street
For children growing up in Britain fifty or more years ago, streets and alleyways were playgrounds of curiosity and adventure. Nowadays, tempted by technology or restricted from being alone outside, ‘playing out’ is no longer the norm. These images from leading street photographers form a joyful, nostalgic record of past freedoms.
Includes work by 10 photographers: Shirley Baker, Tony Boxall, Robin Dale, John Gay, Henry Grant, Paul Kaye, David Lewis-Hodgson, Roger Mayne, Margaret Monck and Martin O'Neill.
Dog Show 1961-1978 by Shirley Baker
When Shirley Baker began taking photographs at dog shows in the 1960s the hairdos of the owners were more impressive than those of their groomed canines. Not only a fascinating portrait of the phenomenon, Dog Show also captures the tender, amusing and at times obsessive relationship between humans and their dogs.
With introductions by Lucinda Gosling. These books are published in collaboration with Mary Evans Picture Library.
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Book 1: The East End in Colour 1960-1980 by David Granick
These previously unpublished photographs by David Granick capture the streets and waterways of London’s East End in the warm hues of Kodachrome film. Journey back in time to a place now long vanished.
Book 2: The Isle of Dogs by Mike Seaborne
Now home to Canary Wharf and global finance, the Isle of Dogs was once the beating heart of industrial East London. These photographs, taken between 1982 and 1987, show the island just before the big money moved in and the area was forever transformed.
Book 3: Dog Show 1961-1978 by Shirley Baker
When Shirley Baker began taking photographs at dog shows in the 1960s the hairdos of the owners were more impressive than those of their groomed canines. Not only a fascinating portrait of the phenomenon, Dog Show also captures the tender, amusing and at times obsessive relationship between humans and their dogs.
Book 4: Paradise Street
For children growing up in Britain fifty or more years ago, streets and alleyways were playgrounds of curiosity and adventure. Nowadays, tempted by technology or restricted from being alone outside, ‘playing out’ is no longer the norm. These images from leading street photographers form a joyful, nostalgic record of past freedoms.
Book 5: The East End in Colour 1980-1990 by Tim Brown
Following our hugely popular The East End in Colour 1960-1980 by David Granick, this new book by a different photographer, Tim Brown, picks up the story in 1980 as East London enters an extraordinary decade of transformation. Focusing on the Docklands and the further reaches of the East End, Tim took these pictures on 35mm film between shifts of driving trains on London Underground's Central Line.
Book 6: London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater
Back in the 1970s, when it was still acceptable to talk, kiss and even smoke on the London Underground, Mike Goldwater spent years documenting chance moments of intimacy and humour across this iconic network of tunnels that live beneath the capital.
Book 7: Hackney Archive by Neil Martinson
East London in the 70s was raw and vivid: bombed-out houses, kids playing in the streets, factories abuzz with workers. These images take us on a journey through workshops, street markets and council homes to capture a time and place before technology and gentrification changed local lives forever.
Book 8: Butlins Holiday Camp 1982 by Barry Lewis
With its ‘glamorous grandmother’ competitions and endless entertainment, Butlin’s in the 80s was the ultimate British package holiday. Barry Lewis’ glorious photographs, taken during a particularly wet summer at Skegness, capture a defiant national spirit at a time when Billy Butlin’s original vision of ‘fun for all the family’ was under threat from cheap foreign travel and the faltering English weather.
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London's Square Mile: A Secret City
'London's Square Mile: A Secret City'. Photography by Polly Braden. Text by David Kynaston, 128pp, hardback, cloth back and spine, 222mm x 157mm.
Millions pass through the square mile, also known as the City of London, yet few are aware of its true significance. These photographs of people surrounded by the City’s imposing architecture, combined with texts from an acclaimed historian, begin to decode one of the most cryptic and fascinating parts of the capital.
‘Adventures in the Lea Valley’ by Polly Braden and David Campany. 112pp hardcover, quarter-bound, gold foiled, 199 x 139 mm
Before the arrival of the 2012 Olympic Games, the Lea Valley was East London's secret retreat. Polly Braden and David Campany documented its strange, gently surreal beauty, before it was transformed forever.
Polly Braden is a documentary photographer whose work examines the relationship between people and the environment in which they find themselves. Capturing the small, often unconscious gestures of her subjects, Polly enjoys long-term collaborations that lend her photographs a unique, quiet intimacy. This is her fifth photography book.