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A walking guide to the highest points and best views around Greater London

The recent closure of Debenhams with its silverfronted Oxford Street flagship and the historic Arding Hobbs at Clapham Junction, is confirmation that suddenly the department stores is now an endangered species.But London has been losing its great department stores for decades once every major high street in Greater London, from Croydon to Uxbridge, had its landmark store, while the West End was full of them, from Bourne and Hollingsworth in Ox...

A hundred short biographies of people who worked at the secret wartime codebreaking base of Bletchley Park, and went on in their postwar lives to all manner of remarkable achievements, from government office to composing the score for Dracula films, by the author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.

The classic Routemaster bus last plied a London bus route in 2005, but this indestructible vehicle is still everywhere, as a wedding bus or a ghost bus, a tea room or a puppet theatre, from Bermuda to Moscow. Now, in the latest Safe Haven field guide, Harry Rosehill catalogues all the multifarious uses of an ageless transport classic.

The first book to explore the relationship between cricket and the natural world, from the trees, shrubs and flowers around a cricket ground to the animals, birds and insects that visit - by the author of Snow Stopped Play, The Mysterious World of the Cricket Ground in Winter.

A collection of Dickens' many writings on railways, from ghost stories to Dombey and Son, travel pieces to letters.

The only one-volume collection of the best writing on cricket by the greatest writer on the game.

A new, expanded and fully revised edition of the unique guide to London's 300-odd species of street tree, fully re-designed, with more pages, more trees and more of its popular street-tree walks, re-published in a larger format.

The first book about the strange phenomenon of the unsent letter, in both history and fiction. Critically acclaimed by the Sunday Times, Spectator, Daily Mail and others, it ranges from Virginia Woolf to Iris Murdoch, Abraham Lincoln to Harry S. Truman, and David Nicholls' One Day to Beethoven and Erik Satie.

An illustrated guide to the moquette fabric patterns used on London Transport Tubes, buses, trains and trams from the Thirties to the present day, published in association with the London Transport Museum, and by the acclaimed author of Underground, Overground.

The Green Space the Capital has Lost - and Some It has Gained.

TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues

NATURE / Birdwatching Guides

Published in association with the Down's Syndrome Association, this is the true story of Sarah Merriman, who has Down's but also has a job in a central London hotel, commutes on the tube, and has a boyfriend and active social life. Following on from "A Minor Adjustment", this features a foreword by Michel Roux, with whom Sarah worked in "Kitchen Impossible".

Published to coincide with London Tree Week, it features over 70 species of tree present on London's streets.

SPORTS & RECREATION / Cricket

Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book explores the mesmerising beauty of cricket grounds in winter, through remarkable colour photographs depicting grounds from Lord's to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire, and from New Zealand to the Himalayas.

The best writing on the greatest drink. An endlessly entertaining anthology, collecting all the best beer writing into one volume - from great writers such as Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman to some of the newest and most fashionable beer bloggers like Boak & Bailey.