St Pancras Station - Simon Bradley

St Pancras station has long been an iconic landmark on the London landscape. The neo-Gothic spires and multi-coloured brickwork of the Midland Grand hotel and the awesome span of the station's train-shed have made it one of the capital's most distinctive monuments. Simon Bradley traces the history of the station, introducing us to the men behind the architecture, and looks forward to its future as home of Eurostar services to the continent. The Wonders of the World is a series of books that focuses on some of the world's most famous sites or monuments. Their names will be familiar to almost everyone: they have achieved iconic stature and are loaded with a fair amount of mythological baggage. These monuments have been the subject of many books over the centuries, but our aim, through the skill and stature of the writers, is to get something much
more enlightening, stimulating, even controversial, than straightforward histories or guides.

Simon Bradley is editor of the World Famous Buildings of England series, founded by Nikolaus Pevsner, to which he has contributed a number of notable revised volumes. He lives in London.

A marvellous piece of social, aesthetic and technological history... It is impossible to praise Bradley's book too highly.
Daily Telegraph - A.N. Wilson

Brilliantly and with deft hand, Simon Bradley makes sense of it all... Fabulous.
Sunday Telegraph

There is nothing in this book that I am not happy to know; much more of it is valuable to know; all of it is a pleasure to know.
Spectator

[A] masterpiece of historical context...Immensely readable.
Sunday Times

Take him along on that swift trip to Paris.
The Independent - Boyd Tonkin

This fine book examines the history of both the church that gave the station its name and the railway terminus...Unexpectedly compelling.
Daily Mail

...(a) sprightly social, technological and architectural history...Most entertaining...
Evening Standard

A marvellous piece of social, aesthetic and technological history... It is impossible to praise Bradley's book too highly.
Daily Telegraph - A.N. Wilson

Brilliantly and with deft hand, Simon Bradley makes sense of it all... Fabulous.
Sunday Telegraph