Curious Camden Town
published by Five Leaves
"the rich tapestry of Camden's history revealed" - Ham and High

Curious Camden Town - 106pp, £9.99 and available from Owl in Kentish Town Road and other local bookshops and on Amazon - looks at twenty-nine places in and around the area, some well-known others quite the opposite, and at the remarkable stories attached to them: the gig at the Roundhouse which made Camden hip ... the local diva who died much too young ... the folk dance revival which took root in a Camden hay market ... the prize fighter who just wouldn't give up ... the spiritualist temple bankrolled by Sherlock Holmes ... the best eels, mash and pie place in the borough ... burlesque at the Black Cap ... the pole dancing school in a Camden Mews.

Take a glance at the map (below) that appears in Curious Camden Town and the accompanying list of contents - we hope it will whet your appetite. And we've also posted an extract from the book Revolution at the Roundhouse - do take a look!  
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The book is copiously illustrated - freelance news cameraman Brian Kelly has taken several of the stand-out images, and there are more than forty photos, some archive but most specially taken, accompanying the text.
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This map was designed by Nancy Edwards - http://www.nancyedwards.co.uk/

1  Revolution at the Roundhouse
2  Amy Winehouse's Camden
3  Arlington House
4  Tom Sayers - the 'Little Wonder'
5  'Modernism for Suburbia'
6  Burlesque at the Black Cap
7  The Belgian connection
8  The Johnny Cash cash machine
9  Regent's Park Barracks
10 Blair's funeral
11 Vinot Cars
12 Morris On
13 The Cumberland Market Group
14 'Dig for Victory'
15 The cat goddesses
16 Richard Cobden - unknown hero
17 A black revolutionary
18 The Working Men's College 
19 The shadow of a shadow
20 A movement that shook the world
21 The final chord
22 St Martin's Almshouses
23 The EOKA priest
24 Lawford's Wharves
25 The Camden Town Murder
26 The eternal optimists
27 Sherlock's temple
28 Ecole de Pole
29 Eels, Pie and Mash