Atlas of Imagined Cities by Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies and Mike Hall

By the authors of Atlas of Imagined Places – WINNER of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year.

We are thrilled to welcome back this brilliant team, Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies and illustrator Mike Hall with their fantastical new atlas, Atlas of Imagined Cities.

An evening discovering thousands of locations from film, TV, books and comics all ingeniously plotted on beautiful vintage looking maps to illustrate who lives where.

From the Ghostbusters HQ to Nemo’s fish tank, this is an amazing atlas of imaginary locations in real-life cities around the world.

Featuring 14 of the world’s greatest cities, these glorious and detailed maps illustrate precisely where fictional characters lived, loved, worked and played and where iconic scenes took place. The locations have been painstakingly researched, mapped, annotated and wittily divulged by the authors, and there’s an extensive index to find them all.

Find out how to get to Sesame Street, where to join Starfleet, the residences of James Bond and George Smiley (who are neighbours – apparently!) in London and the route of the exciting San Francisco car chase in Bullitt. Accompanying the maps are illuminating essays that explain how the authors came to their decisions, along with explorations of the key locations and fun timelines of imaginary events.

It’s a beautiful, large-format book that will appeal to fans of literature, film, TV and maps.

About the authors:

Matt Brown is author of several books for Batsford, using his trademark humour and playfulness as tools to explore the world. He is the editor-at-large of Londonist.com, writing on topics as diverse as street art, politics, map-making and science. He lives in Hertfordshire and tweets at @mattfromlondon.

Rhys B. Davies lives in Ceredigion, Wales. As a child of the nineties, he was reared on a mix of Saturday-morning cartoons, blockbuster films and all manner of literature, coalescing into a deep love of fiction and the worlds that imagination can build.

Mike Hall is an award-winning freelance illustrator and map designer living in Valencia, Spain.

WINNERS of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year with Atlas of Imagined Places

The event will start promptly at 7.00pm.

Tickets £7

Includes glass of wine/soft drink

(£5 off the published price of Atlas of Imagined Cities for ticket holders when purchased on the evening)