Most Popular Books by Ed Glinert

In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England''s second city. Manchester''s town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city''s architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage. Peterloo and Engel''s treatise on the conditions of the working classes its political history and the Manchester Guardian and Factory Records its cultural and social history. From Thomas de Quincey to Alan Touring, Neville Cardus to Morrissey - all are part of the city''s rich and fascinating past. Covering every area of human activity and incorporating all the great events and key moments in the city''s history this will be a fresh and unique perspective on a great city.

From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists throughout the centuries have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and retaurants and strolled in its parks and gardens. They have been inspired by its monuments, churches, law courts and theatres and have created fictional Londoners as diverse as Mr Pickwick, Sherlock Holmes, Bertie Wooster, Mrs Dalloway and Winston Smith, whose fortunes are played out against a London backdrop. This updated edition of The Penguin Literary Guide to London is a must for all book lovers and readers.

Organised by London postal district and containing an entry on every significant building, place and street in London, this is a surprising and compelling look at the hidden city. Packed with stories on every conceivable subject from East End criminals to espionage, music to murder, politics to partying, settings for films and books, this is an entertaining book on England''s capital city. Covering the whole span of London''s social and political history, it brings the reader up to date with stories on the arts, immigration and architecture.

''West End Chronicles'' is packed with atmospheric anecdotes of people, places and history. Funny, opinionated, quirky and always informative, its subjects include artists, Bohemian eccentrics and Fitzroy Tavern literary life, the characters, faces and coffee bars and the music and art they spawned, and more.

From Medieval melting - pot to Victorian hellhole, Blitz bombing target to modern gentrification template, the East End has always been London''s mysterious alter - ego, with an identity unlike anywhere else. East End Chronicles tells the dark, unusual and arcane stories of this curious area as they have never been told before, bringing it to life through the streets and characters - both well known and obscure - that have given the East End its identity through the centuries. Here is a place of mystics and mythmakers, crime and squalor, excess and transgression; a tight - knit community set apart from the rest of the city because of the industries that the rest of London didn''t want; that absorbed wave upon wave of immigrants seeking shelter from persecution; that provided fertile terrain for political activists and philanthropists, as well as conmen, card sharps, extortionists, opium addicts, gangsters and the most notorious criminal of all, Jack the Ripper - for whose murders East End Chronicles contains an intriguing new theory.

The London Football Companion follows the history of the sport in the capital, from its foundations in the days of gentleman amateurs to the obscene wealth and tabloid scandals of the modern age. As it winds its way postcode-by-postcode from Westminster to Watford via all points in between, it takes in everything from bungs and brawls to tantrums and transfers. The Brewer Street kebab shop that cost Paul Gascoigne a trip to the 1998 World Cup, the traffic jam on Tottenham High Road that made Roman Abramovich give up on his plans for Spurs and buy further west, and the Central London pub where the FA was founded are just some of the places that feature in the stories, scandals, tragedies and triumphs that make up the footballing heritage of our capital. The London Football Companion takes an anecdotal look at the capital''s clubs and how football has evolved over the decades, from Premiership giants Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham, through characterful sides like Charlton, Crystal Palace, QPR and Millwall, to Sunday league football on Hackney Marshes. What emerges is a wonderfully rich, entertaining and compulsively browsable history of the beautiful game.

ROCK & ROLL TRAVELER GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ROCK & ROLL TRAVELER GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND The Ultimate Guide to Famous Rock Hangouts Past and Present Tips and Rock & Roll Lore From the Beatles Liverpool and the Manchester of the Smiths and Oasis to the Dublin of U2 and Bawl, with an obligatory stop in London, where everyone who was ever anyone has partied and performed, this entertaining guide showcases a UK and Ireland you''ll find nowhere else. Historic gigs: Jimi Hendrix at the Scotch of St. James, the debut of Blind Faith at Hyde Park, the Beatles'' first gig as the Beatles. Pop shrines: London''s Lyceum, Filthy McNasty''s, and the 100 club; Liverpool''s The Cavern and Jacaranda; Manchester''s Boardwalk. Unruly Rockers: Where the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, and other stars have lived fast and gotten into and out of trouble. Sound Suppliers: Record stores (new, used, and vinyl), recording studios, and the best local clubs for catching rock in progress. Great Photos from Club and Band Managers, Rock Star Kin and More Behind the scenes at rock festivals: Beck at the Phoenix Festival, Stratford-Upon-Avon; the "Wild Bunch" spinning disks at the St. Paul''s Festival, Bistrol. Historic rock moments: Elvis arriving at Prestwick Airport; the Moody Blues'' first photo session, Birmingham; U2 protesting with Greenpeace at Sellafield nuclear reactor site. Live gigs: Liam Gallagher of Oasis at Moles in Bath; the Clash playing at the London Rock Against Racism concert; Motorhead at the Astoria in London.

350 problems and 200 examples ranging from genetics to sports, finance and current events show probability in action.

This lively guide tracks the footsteps of some of the world''s favorite musicians to discover the sites where rock and roll history was made. State by state, the witty, informative text details the places that have shaped America''s rock and roll culture, everything from where the Beatles played their first US concert to Kurt Cobain''s Seattle. Photos.

Some of the citys most gruesome stories are unearthed in this compendium of facts and anecdotes addressing London''s dead. From the famous and infamous to unsung heroes and victims, and from well-known resting places to undignified graves, a vast array of deaths is addressed.

- The ultimate insider''s guide to Oxford for locals and experienced travelers - Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides - Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide - Appeals to both the local market (more than 151.000 people call Oxford home) and the tourist market (around 7 million people visit Oxford every year!) - Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs There might be more books on Oxford than students who have attended the world''s greatest university, but there has never been one as dynamic and exciting as 111 Places in Oxford That You Shouldn''t Miss. Author Ed Glinert has sifted through all the college histories, records and lists of alumni; examined all the quads and cloisters of the great colleges; explored the glorious villages hewn from honey-dripping Cotswold stone; luxuriated in the glamorous coffee houses of High Street; imagined society''s earliest motor cars built at the Morris garages; been struck dumb by the never-ending peel of bells at Tom Tower; relaxed at Carfax, the very center of the universe; and tippled at each of the legendary pubs between St Giles and Merton. This is a volume which will send residents into paroxysms of laughter, remind students why they''re there, and warn prospective undergrads of the joys of living in one of the world''s most beautiful and cleverest cities.

A guided tour of Britain''s spiritual heritage Did Joseph of Arimathea really bring the holy grail to Glastonbury? Why do many conspicracy theorists believe architects such as Wren and Hawksmoore secretly built London according to principles from the Old Testament? What were the true reasons for the executions of martyrs such as Ridley, Wycliffe and Cranmer? All these intriguing questions, and many more, are answered in Ed Glinert''s unusual and fascinating new book. Glinert travels round Britain unearthing the most interesting spiritual characters and stories from over 2,000 years of British history. From martyrs to mystics, millenialists to malingerers, and ''messiahs'' magicians magicians, Britain''s turbulent religious history has thrown up a wealth of intriguing characters. Ed Glinert tells their stories in readable, bitesized chunks.

The ultimate insider''s guide to London''s East End Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide Appeals to both the local market (more than 8.7 million people call London home) and the tourist market (more than 30 million people visit London every year ) Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs Mediaeval no-go zone, Victorian hell-hole, war-ravaged bomb site, 21st century shining city, the most exciting area in one of the most exciting cities in the world - the East End has often been London''s strange alter ego. Ed Glinert trawls through the strange stories, the crazed characters, the violent vignettes, the dried-up docks, the imaginative immigrants, the proud philanthropists to give a different history of the most misunderstood sector of the capital, from the Princes in the Tower to the Ratcliffe Highway murders; from Jack the Ripper to the Kray twins; the Jewish ghetto to Banglatown; Cable Street to Canary Wharf; Mahatma Gandhi to George Orwell.

* The ultimate insider''s guide to Yorkshire for locals and experienced travelers* Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides* Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide* Appeals to both the local market (more than 5.3 million people call Yorkshire home) and the tourist market (more than 1.3 million people visit Yorkshire every year!)* Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographsThey call Yorkshire God''s own country. This is because England''s biggest county is also England''s most epic and most historically exciting. It has everything: unimaginably beautiful countryside, derelict castles, cliff-hugging coastlines, brutally bleak moors, quirkily quaint villages, wondrously winding waterways and industrial monsters of cities. Many of the most interesting episodes in English history have happened here: the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the birth of the industrial revolution, the rise of the Labour movement. But when people think of Yorkshire they also think of the unusual and the unsung: Bettys delightful tea rooms, cricket at Scarborough, the windswept steps of Whitby Abbey, the steam railway of the Railway Children, Mother Shipton''s Cave, and racing at Doncaster and York. Yorkshire has also given birth to some of the greatest and most talented figures in English history: Brian Clough, Harold Wilson, John Wycliffe, William Wilberforce, the Brontë Sisters, David Hockney and Barbara Hepworth.