Mihir S Sharma: City of books

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London used to be a city of bookshops; but it is one no longer. The independent book stores that used to enliven neighbourhoods are disappearing - Charing Cross Road, where you could browse through dozens of them in an afternoon, has lost many to the high rents that are the bane of central London. Even the storied Murder One, one of the largest "genre" bookshops in the world, shut down in 2009. But, in spite of the bookshop drought, London is still a book-lover's city - if, that is, you choose to use your imagination. Surely no other part of the world has lived through more ...

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Mihir S Sharma: City of books