The London Year

This book was a round-up of the main events happening in London, grouped by month, complemented by overviews by topic (e.g. round-up of music festivals across several months).

As someone who lives in London - and who is still very much in the honeymoon phase of the London life - I thought this was fantastic! The calendar was really comprehensive and it included many events that even someone like myself, who is very proactive about finding events to attend, didn't know about. It helped me find new things to add to my London bucket list.
I wouldn't recommend this to a tourist necessarily, or someone planning to spend a short time in London. Instead, I would very highly recommend it to someone staying in London medium to long term.
I would have loved to have a label for each event, specifying if it's free or paid; and for the paid ones, perhaps having a bracket of the ticket cost / a tier system that labels it as "inexpensive"/"mid-tier"/"expensive". And the cover could have had a lovely photo of London! But even so, I thoroughly enjoyed. Now if you excuse me, I'm off buying tickets for the Podcast Festival...

Thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Appealingly laid out, with plenty of vivid color photos, I liked seeing images of many of the goings-on in the city of London and, while I’m not sure how helpful this might or might be to a resident, as someone who’s planning a dream trip to England, I found it an enjoyable and helpful read, (and I’ve also realized that I really would need at least a full year to experience the area the way I’d love to be able to).


The London Year would also likely be rather useful in planning your homeschooling year.



Thank you to Frances Lincoln and NetGalley for the PDF

Those who live in England, along with those who plan to visit will find this book to be essential. It highlights the many events that happen in London over the course of the year. For each, there is a helpful description and there are also a number of photos. For example-in April be part of The Tweed Run, in July attend the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival and so on.

Whenever a person is in London, this book should be part of the trip.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this title. All opinions are my own.