Customer Reviews

Typical Terry Deary wit presents the HORRIBLE HISTORY of LONDON in a child appealing way - By: Amazon Reviewer, 23 Feb 2007
`This book will only tell you the `horrible' bits of London's history.
To really get a fair & honest picture of the past you need a book that will tell you all the good AND the bad things about a piece of history. But..
Beware of the `disclaimer', the `HORRIBLE HISTORY' warning:-
`This is NOT the book to give you a fair & honest picture of London!
This book will only tell you the horrible bits of London's history - about the bad, not the brave; the horrible, not the happy; the dreadful, disgusting & dirty, not the dear, drippy & delightful.'

`Loathsome London dishes the dirt on lifein the capital - the lies, the legends & all the lousy details, from the rotten Roman rulers to the plague-ridden peasants.
Want to know:-
what caused the Great Stink of 1858?
why the flying dustmen were feared?
who ate a tosher for tea?

History has never been so horrible!'


127 packed pages, split over 14 chapters:-

Ancient London timeline
Terrible Tower
Middle Ages London timeline
Awful for animals
Terrible Tudor & slimy Stuarts timeline
Cool for criminals
The Loathsome London quiz
London language
Modern London timeline
London's lousy jobs
Terrible for tots to teens
Barmy buildings
Under London
London ends

with an introduction & an epilogue.

Writtenin various fonts with humorous black & white illustrations/cartoons throughout, which are sure to draw the most reluctant eye!