The Blue Riband: The Piccadilly Line

Peter York, co-author of the 80s bestseller, The Sloane Ranger Handbook, charts the progress of the dream of grandeur and aspiration in London — part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground.

In The Blue Riband, Peter York, chronicler of London's elites, looks at the 'uptown top-ranking' relationship between the grand — but still accessible via the Tube — locations of central London and humbler Londoners. He considers how aspirant Londoners were drawn to the centre and how in the 21st Century hopeful new Londoners from practically everywhere filter through Heathrow and the outer suburbs, and end Up West, wanting to be part of it. He looks at Piccadilly, the entertainment hub of the Edwardian empire, through the eyes of that eternally resonant figure Burlington Bertie from Bow.

• Author
• Peter York

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 100

• Series
• Penguin Lines – Celebrate 150 years of the London Underground

• Publisher
• Penguin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-84614-679-4

• EAN
• 9781846146794

• Release date
• 2013