LONDON’S SOUTH BANK
“This is a wonderful, optimistic, informative and ambitious publication. It manages to be a cultural and social history, an artistic engagement, a provocation and a rallying cry. It celebrates and mourns the past, documents the present, and offers up possibilities and challenges for the future, all in an engaging and individual manner. How rare this combination is. Go on, treat yourself to a copy.”
Rupert Loydell, International Times
“This beautifully illustrated book, an innovative classic by an awesome historian. Get it now! …Contemporary descriptions of London go out of date fast. Yet decades from now, this book will still be enjoyable and revelatory. I don’t think any London Historian’s life will be complete without it.”
Hannah Renier, London Historians Blog
“The simple title gives little clue to the scope and depth of this remarkable book … … there is so much here that really touched me, that I can only highlight one or two examples, focused around the theme of Fall and Resurrection … I shall never again see these areas through the same eyes, and for that I am grateful to the author and her illustrator. They have done the South Bank and its visitors a great service”. Clive Orton in The London Archaeologist
“Galinou, confronted with the enormity of her potential subject area … achieves an admirable comprehensiveness by dividing her South Bank up into four zones (Vauxhall and Lambeth; Waterloo; Borough and Bankside; and Southwark and Bermondsey) and then subdividing each of these into four chronological sections (1600, 1770, 1845 and ‘now’)…. What distinguishes her book from … predecessors is the lavish selection of illustrations that support the text. Galinou’s choice of historic maps, prints and paintings, is clearly informed by her knowledge of the collections of the Museum of London (where she previously worked as curator of paintings) as well as by a familiarity with other London museums and archives. Many of the works reproduced in the book are of excellent quality and have rarely been made available to the public before.… the detail and research of the component parts remain consistently impressive in this sensitive and considered history of ‘London’s first suburb’”.
Jon Newman in The Burlington Magazine
THE STREATHAM SKETCHBOOK
“The book is superb and one the best books to be published on Streatham as a place – if not the best.”
Graham Gower, The Streatham Society
“My father and I would like to thank you for the copy of the book that was kindly delivered. It is a very impressive publication that he is very proud to have his work in.”
Emelia Kenlock, daughter of photographer Neil Kenlock
THE DULWICH NOTEBOOK
“The Dulwich Notebook takes you on a beautifully illustrated adventure around South London’s hidden gem, sharing more secrets than even SECRET LONDON could possibly manage.”
Georgie Hoole, Deputy Editor of Secret London
“This terrific book is a model of how to write about place. Contemporary photographs combine with original text and elegant design to create something that feels rooted in its neighbourhood yet also seen through fresh eyes. Dulwich is fortunate to be chronicled in such an engaging way.”
Dr Cathy Ross, Honorary Research Fellow, Museum of London (September 2015)
“This is a handsome and comprehensive volume: Dulwich in all its facets, in one ‘huge’ snapshot. It’s arty in the best meaning of the word: beautifully presented … it is surely destined to grace many a coffee table in Dulwich and beyond.”
John Turpin in Camberwell Quarterly, Winter 2015/2016
“Old and new are juxtaposed to highlight change and continuity … a popular account, superbly produced and offered for sale at a remarkably low price …”
Bernard Nurse in The Dulwich Society Journal, Winter 2015
“There is a vast amount of information here, yet it is written, organised and presented in such a way that anyone can happily and easily go through the pages sequentially, or can choose to use the index to find any item of special interest … The excellent photographs by Torla Evans (Head of Photography at the Museum of London until 2013) not only complement the text, but also add extra context to it, helping to enhance the reader’s journey through Dulwich’s past and present.”
Richard Gilpin in the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Newsletter, May 2016
“The photographs by Torla Evans, commissioned for the book, are excellent as is the selection of historic images, many of which will be unfamiliar. The Dulwich Notebook is an admirably complete account of Dulwich past and present … and for a book produced to such high standards its price represents outstanding value.”
Laurence Marsh in the The London Topographical Newsletter, Spring 2016