When Did Big Ben First Bong?: 101 Questions Answered About The Greatest City On Earth

Millions live there, millions more visit each year - but how many really know London?

Find out:

* How New York's famous Central Park came to be modelled on a seventeenth-century London square
* When Primrose Hill almost gained a pyramid even larger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
* Why about 640 people came to be drowned in the Thames in a single night
* What the royal family might do to escape London if the balloon ever goes up