Do Not Pass Go

From The Old Kent Road To Mayfair

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Published by Vintage UK / Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-09-943386-6
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5 stars (1 review)

Welcome to London. A city where a house is yours for £50, banks make errors in your favour and you can even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go, Tim Moore boldly tackles the Monopoly board's real streets, telling the story of a game and the city that frames it. Moore stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one on the Old Kent Road, and solves all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail: how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion.

Do Not Pass Go is a travelogue of one man's erratic journey around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, and an epic history of London's wayward progress since the launch of the world's most …

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5 stars

Not a big Monopoly fan, but certainly a big fan of this book. Tim Moore does his research before going to a place, so he knows the kinds of things to look out for as well as the questions to ask: which makes this book really very enjoyable. I've learnt a lot of trivia from this book too - did you know that, for example, more people shop at Selfridge's every year than live in Australia? His writing is amusing and clever; his observations all the more valid for the research he does; and he comes across as a very human writer. If you live in London, or visit regularly, you'll get a lot out of this book - probably why I read most of it on holiday in the USA.