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|author= Stephen Halliday
|title=London Underground (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)
|rating=4
|genre=Travel, History, Trivia
|summary= From initial worries about smutty, enclosed air with a pungent smell to decades of human hair and engine grease causing escalator fires; from just a few lines connecting London termini to major jaunts out into Metro-land for the suburbia-bound commuters; and from a few religious-minded if financially dodgy pioneer investment managers to Crossrail; the history of the world's most extensive underground system (even when a majority is actually above ground) is fascinating to many. This book is a repository of much that is entirely trivial, but is also pretty much thoroughly interesting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821039</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francis Duncan
|summary= I should have guessed from their names (''Bailey'' and ''Logan'') that this story was set in the States, but initially I was too busy identifying with the blurb on the back to notice. 10 year age gap? Check. Magnificent estate? Check. First wife? Check. Even if that doesn't make you feel as if you are reading about your own life, which is of course how it made me feel, there's a lot to drag you in to this one immediately and I was utterly delighted that my initial eagerness to read this one was sustained to the very last page.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751551929</amazonuk>
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