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A fold-out poster guide to the elements of Ivy League style as interpreted by veteran Japanese illustrator Kazuo Hozumi. Since the 1960s, Kazuo Hozumi has documented the minutiae of Ivy League-style clothing. His cheerful characters are shown wearing buttondown shirts, buckle-back chinos, natural shoulder herringbone tweed jackets and the plethora of items that fall within this style. Hozumi''s finely observed illustration work has gained a cu...

This guide explores the London of John le Carre and his most famous creation - master spy George Smiley. We map his haunts and trail him through foggy streets to the pubs and safe houses frequented by colleagues and rivals from ''The Circus'' of British Intelligence. Here, the real and fictional overlap, le Carre (David Cornwell) was a former spy, and he brought that knowledge and attention to detail to his writing - along with discreet refere...

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No visitor to this Basque city is likely to miss the stunning Guggenheim museum and nor should they, but our guide digs deeper: uncovering wonderful food, traditional shops and diverse cultural attractions. Alongside stunning modern architecture - Gehry's Guggenheim, a metro system with stations designed by Norman Foster, Phillipe Starck's reinvention of a wine warehouse into cultural space - there are dozens of tiny bars vying to serve the mo...

This guide comprises 40 spots that all family members will enjoy: places to eat, museums, shops, parks and other sights. There's the bridge from Madeline, gallons of chocolate mousse, and stinky cheese that may bring squeals of delight or of horror. These entries are tried, tested and guaranteed both adult and child-friendly. Paris En Famille is written by Yolanda Edwards, based on many trips in the company of her daughter and husband, which a...

Allow us to introduce you to our Amsterdam, a beautiful city rising out of murky waters, a place untrammelled by stag parties or red-eyed tourists, where small businesses old and new can rely on the patronage of an open-minded population. There are 43 entries on this map, from a stall selling fresh herring to a cat museum, shops specialising in movie memorabilia, records, vintage clothing and artists materials. There are cafés, bars and restau...

Here is the essential companion for those in search of la dolce vita. The itinerary includes good food, strong coffee, interesting shops and plenty of strolling the city's beautiful streets. There are clothes shops, restaurants, a cemetery and galleries and special sections on ice cream and fountains.

This is a guide to the New York you've always wanted to see but feared might have disappeared for good. It depicts a city of Edward Hopper diners and down-at-heel dive bars, overstocked grocery stores and mountainous pastrami sandwiches. From Patsy's Pizzeria in Harlem, to the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown, taking in along the way Katz's, the "21" Club and McSorley's Old Ale House, in these long-established Manhattan businesses, the city's c...

There are 36 entries in the guide to the Swedish capital, incorporating our usual range of interests: good food and coffee, cultural pursuits and shops. There's Biologika Museet, a 19th-century natural history museum of staggering strangeness, rainwear from Stutterheim, salty caramel from Pärlans Konfektyr and intimate eating at Bakfickan.

Few writers are as inextricably linked with a city as Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles. The neon-lit streets, mobbed-up joints and seedy rooming houses portrayed in his fiction were real places, familiar to Angelenos of the time, and in some cases recognisable today. This is a guide to the world of Raymond Chandler and his noble alter-ego, the private detective Philip Marlowe. It mixes locations from the books, the films and Chandler's persona...

We have scoured the capital for experts, virtuosos and old hands in the realms of retail and repair. The 61 entries are spread across the city, a maker of rubberwear in Richmond, carpet mender in Woolwich, architectural ironmonger on City Road, formalwear-for-hire in Chelsea.

The desire to see and be seen is not shared by all. For those who prefer to conduct business away from prying eyes, this map is for you. We list 31 places with hidden alcoves and easy exits, neglected restaurants, unreconstructed wine bars, ancient pubs and even natural isolation. In these locations discretion is assured, it's entirely up to you to decide how you make use of that.