The pocket-sized Shortlists contain everything you need to plan and enjoy a city visit, in a handy size and easy-to-use map-based format. It includes sights and shops, restaurants and nightlife, arts and culture. The London edition is published annually, allowing it to be bang up to date and cover all the important events for the year, majoring, in the 2012 edition, on the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, including the Cultural Olympiad programme and London 2012 Festival.

More than half a million people are expected to come to London to watch the 2012 Games. The Time Out London Shortlist will give them all the essential information they need, from site maps and schedules to information on getting around and where to stay, along with plenty of insider featurettes covering the cultural and sporting scene.

The Time Out London Shortlist has been compiled by the publishers of London's leading weekly events magazine and the definitive guidebooks to its shops, restaurants and more. As such, it is packed with of up-to-the minute expertise and informed, independent reviews. No one knows London better.

Editor Simon Coppock is Time Out's London guide specialist, with several editions of the Shortlist and the larger City Guide under his belt. As an east London resident, he is bang on the scene of developments at the Olympic Park and the renaissance of the surrounding area.