By Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms, this new book is first of two describing West Hampstead and Kilburn. Geographically arranged, the book recounts the history of every street in the NW6 area north of the Jubilee line and the part of Cricklewood within Camden. It also provides biographical sketches of the very many notable people who have lived in the area – including two Nobel Prize winners, a valiant soldier awarded a VC in WWI, and a woman many considered to be the greatest British soul singer.