"In a succession of striking images, Rawle examines halls and chapels, bridges, lanterns, gate towers and gardens.

Accompanying the pictures are well informed captions and a substantial stylishly written essay that traces the city's history from Roman times.

"[2] Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Clover Stroud commented: "It takes a book such as this to remind us that there are places in Britain to rival any city in the world for architectural splendour.

"[3] John Graham in the Catholic Herald remarked on the "strikingly beautiful photographs, which avoid the usual clichéd images, depicting instead the university's more unusual and private corners" and on the "excellent essay on the development of the colleges",[4] "On more than one occasion," he noted,"I had the eerie sense of actually looking at the building itself when perusing the photograph."

Paul Kirkley's two-page illustrated feature on the book published in Cambridge Evening News gives a glimpse of how Rawle's photography captures "the hidden beauty" of the city.