Detail from the map of Eastern Europe, including a large section of European Russia and the Baltics.

The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults.From Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. Atlas of Imagined Places: From Lilliput To Gotham City by Matt Brown and Rhys B Davies | 9781849946414. Phileas Fogg could pop across the road into Grace Brothers, and dalmatians Pongo and Perdita could easily be spooked by the Invisible Man. Each map is enlivened by small colour illustrations, depicting characters and scenes from various sources featured on each map. Locations from film, TV, books, computer games and comics are ingeniously plotted on a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps.

Ana de Lima’s whimsical, softly colored illustrations are filled with surprising details that reward close examination, while Mia Cassany’s soothing narrator is a nameless fellow traveler. Navigate round London's fictional tube network, from Walford East (EastEnders) to Hobbs End (Quatermass). Or that two major characters from Doctor Who and Star Trek lived in the same small part of San Francisco? Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The authors even claim to have found a plausible location for Springfield from the Simpsons, despite that show being notoriously coy and tricksy about its whereabouts.Clockwise from top left: Gulliver and a giant bee in Brobdingnag and with a Houyhnhnm (talking horse) from Gulliver's Travels; the Grand Budapest Hotel from the movie of the same name; Godzilla or Gojira; yellow periscopes that represent The Yellow Submarine; floating plastic waste that references the island in Plastic Beach, the album by Gorillaz; the whale attacking the crew of the Pequod in Moby-Dick; and the main characters from the classical Chinese tale Journey to the West. Explore the fictional topography of the most inspiring world cities - including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo - in this new book from the creators of the award-winning Atlas of Imagined Places. I also discovered a bounty of toys for any little girl or boy who wishes for a Christmas gift when I found the Isle of Mifsfit Toys.

Here can be seen illustrations depicting Dracula, a scene from The Prisoner of Zenda, the Grand Budapest Hotel from the Wes Anderson film of the same name, and Rapunzel's tower. Illuminating essays accompanying the maps give a great insight into the stories behind the imaginary places, from Harry Potter’s wizardry to Stone Age Bedrock in the Flintstones. With a deep love of trivia, he’s written and hosted hundreds of quizzes, including events for the Museum of London and Manchester Science Museum, among many others. NOTE: I received a hardback copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest, unbiased review. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.Matt Brown is author of 11 books for Batsford, using his trademark humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. Characters' homes, bars, clubs, metro stations and skycrapers that you've seen or read about are all plotted in in beautiful vintage-style city maps.