Nobody does London like TimeOut does it, and this... is one of their very finest guides. Don't expect the conventional, nor a practical guide with geographical orientations. Instead imagine opening a very large antique furniture chest with unknown contents that you've accidentally come across; where all sorts of wonderful, most curious, occasionally even very useful little items can be haphazardly found inside. This has been for me the experience of using this book, to which I refer again and again and again even though, or because, I'll never do everything that's in it.
This is not at all the book for the first-time visitor on a weekend break, perhaps not even for their first week. Those people should head for a more traditional London-guide title. But past that first week in London, or in their second visit, and even if they decide to stay and live in this city for years, this book will give you all the reasons to either feel exhilarated and proud to be a Londoner, or to wish you were one, or at least to have you wanting to come back again for more. It may possibly represent one of the best and most comprehensive arguments constructed in the early XXI century to keep supporting the case in favour of Samuel Johnson's most famous adage: When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. There go 1000 examples.