Best for: Anyone who likes a little trivia about place names. In a nutshell: Author Hilliam provides the history of the name of every station on the London Underground Worth quoting: “Interestingly, our word ‘book’ also comes from this Saxon word (boc hyrst) for a beech tree. Even before books as we know them were invented, wooden writing tablets were made of thin slices of beech wood, on which letters known as runes could be scratched. These, of course, were pieces of boc.” Why I […]