Well received by reviewers and readers alike, David Long's imaginative trio of London books — Spectacular Vernacular: London's 100 Most Extraordinary Buildings, a sequel Tunnels, Towers & Temples: London's 100 Strangest Places, and The Little Book of London — reflects an unquenchable interest in the quirkier, lesser known aspects of the city, its long history, streetscape and architecture.
A writer and journalist since graduating in the 1980s, his work has regularly appeared in the Sunday Times and its magazine, in the Sunday Mirror and the London Evening Standard. Whilst a columnist on the Sunday People, he created a popular cartoon strip which ran for several years in the weekend edition of the Times.
David Long has also ghostwritten a number of non-fiction titles for other authors - one of which won the Independent Publisher's Book Award - and for publishers in both Britain and the United States. In recent months he has had published two more books of his own, English Eccentrics and their Bizarre Behaviour and Blood, Sweat & Tyres: The Little Book of the Automobile both of which are described elsewhere on this site.
David Long brings a genuine pleasure to his subject.
- The London Magazine
An endorsement at the highest level should be given to David Longšs Little Book of London.
- Robert Elms Show, BBC Radio London
The book of the week
- Evening Standard
A quirkier look at the subject...plenty of new places here for even the most knowledgeable Londoner to explore.
- Museum of London