The Blue Riband: The Piccadilly Line (Penguin Underground Lines) - Softcover

York, Peter

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9781846146794: The Blue Riband: The Piccadilly Line (Penguin Underground Lines)

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ISBN 10: 1846146798 ISBN 13: 9781846146794

Publisher: Penguin, 2013

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Blue Riband

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"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." "Times""

"Eclectic and broad-minded. . . beautifully designed." "Observer""

The contrasts and transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves. . . A multidimensional literary jigsaw." "Londonist"
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"A collection of beautiful books." "Grazia""

"A series of short, sharp, city-based vignettes some personal, some political and some pictorial. . . each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected, full of wit, and just the right amount of grit." "Fabric "Magazine" ""

About the Author:

Peter York is one of the UK's leading strategic researchers. As Peter York, the writer, author and broadcaster on social styles and trends, he writes regularly for the Independent and other broadsheets. His books include co-authoring the 80s bestseller The Sloane Ranger Handbook and Dictators' Homes. His latest BBC documentary, 'The Rise and Fall of the Ad-Man', was shown on BBC2 in 2011. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London. His latest book Jim Lee: Arrested will be published in May 2012.

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