Archival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop

From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the st

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Rest

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

No novelist is as intimately connected to a great city as Dickens is to London. The vibrancy of the city determined the shape and character of Dickens's work an