With photographer Cath Harries

Walk down any street in London and pause for a moment. To your left and right is an array of doors in different styles and colours. Craftsmen across the centuries have sought to impress you with elegant designs. Owners have added their own finishing touches, a hand-painted pattern here, a Shakespeare door knocker there.

Arranged geographically, with an attractive locator map for every area, Doors of London is packed with colourful photographs of the entrances to homes, offices, warehouses, churches, mosques, theatres and libraries. It explains how and why these doors took shape, picking out and dwelling on some of the most interesting. Each chapter concludes with a choice of pubs selected for their history and character.

With short histories of each area to provide context to the changing architecture and history across London. Doors of London highlights the changing face of London while also , revealing details of stand alone locations, including where Dr Johnson wrote his Dictionary, where Oscar Wilde was arrested, where Mrs Simpson visited the Prince of Wales or where the Special Operations Executive plotted during the Second World War.