London Secrets: Style, Design, Glamour, Gardens

From the author of the bestselling Paris Secrets, this book showcases London’s grandeur, glamour, creativity, mystery and heritage. Janelle McCulloch offers an insightful and intelligent insider’s guide to the most delightful surprises in this sophisticated and dignified city. From enthralling design hotels, hidden museums, secret National Trust properties, glorious markets and restaurants, parks and gardens, fashion boutiques and antique haunts, this book captures all the hidden corners of London, many of which are not widely publicised. London Secrets is expertly organised into intuitive categories and mini guides for the reader, including how to individualise your itinerary, how to spend 24 stylish hours in London, restaurants and bars, unusual historic sites and museums, botanical spaces, design highlights, and creative destinations. Lavishly photographed and researched, London Secrets will shed a whole new light on this most vibrant – and surprising – of cities.

About the Author :
Driss Fatih graduated in modern languages from Oxford University and has over ten years' experience in publishing, starting with Routledge in London, where he worked on the Europa World series of books. He then joined Dod's Parliamentary Communications, working between Westminster and Brussels, combined with freelance work as a copy editor and proofreader. As editor and project coordinator at The Images Publishing Group in Melbourne, he produced titles on architecture and interior design - two of his passions. He recently returned to London, from where he showcases his extensive background knowledge to write on and lavishly photograph London for this book.

Review :
What a treat it is, then, to open up Janelle McCulloch's lavishly-produced travel book on this most sophisticated and dignified world city, London Secrets, which takes readers beyond the well-worn tourist paths via the city's hidden corners and out-of-the-way places.--Cream Magazine Author and photographer Janelle McCulloch offers a trained eye on the design, style and history of sites -- gardens, restaurants, bookstores, fashion houses, hotels -- including many that typically don't stand out, especially in a city overburdened with distractions.--San Francisco Chronicle What a treat it is, then, to open up Janelle McCulloch's lavishly-produced travel book on this most sophisticated and dignified world city, London Secrets, which takes readers beyond the well-worn tourist paths via the city's hidden corners and out-of-the-way places.--Cream Magazine Author and photographer Janelle McCulloch offers a trained eye on the design, style and history of sites -- gardens, restaurants, bookstores, fashion houses, hotels -- including many that typically don't stand out, especially in a city overburdened with distractions.--San Francisco Chronicle