Colours of LondonCelebrated novelist, biographer, and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come to shape its history and identity. Think of the colours of London, and what do you imagine? The reds of open top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone, and pigeons in Trafalgar Square? Or the gradations of