London : The Biography

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city....

Publisher: Clinical Press LtdAuthor(s): Diana AshworthNumber of pages: 190Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 200 x 23Cover type: Paperback / s...

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of Lo...

Reducere. On April 30th, 1665 Samuel Pepys wrote "Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up....

Publisher: Snowbooks LtdAuthor(s): Virginia WoolfNumber of pages: 72Collection: Snowbooks Signature SeriesPublication date: 2004Dimensions: 157 x 1...

Reducere. The People of the Abyss (1903) is a work of nonfiction by American writer Jack London. Written after the author spent three months living in London...

Reducere. Donald Trump is the master of Twitter and The Art of The Tweet. Based on Trump, The Art of The Deal, "Donald Trump, The Art of The Tweet" highlight...

DescriptionAn alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past. I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision ...

City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and gueri...

Publisher: Divided PublishingAuthor(s): Fanny HoweNumber of pages: 100Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 9Cover type: Paperback / softba...

A rich and evocative account of the life and work of Britain's favourite composer from one of our finest conductors.

Reducere. In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. at master would become Kin...

Reducere. Paris-London Connection is the most shocking yet factual book written on the 1997 Paris crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover, ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world's eeriest monumentThe ravens at the Tower of London a...

Reducere. Albanian Mafia Wars is a fast-paced account of how one of the world's most dangerous criminal societies has seized control of Britain's 5 billion c...

It gives a well researched, fascinating and entertaining insight to the stories behind the stories of London's literature.Publisher: Pen & Sword Bo...

South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and emigre South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London play...

An illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating life in England's capital.

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdAuthor(s): Hussein BarghouthiTranslator: Ibrahim MuhawiNumber of pages: 154Collection: The Arab ListPublication ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean Hough DaveyWith: Anne O'HaganIn the 1960s, when women were neither accepted nor encouraged to enter the world of finan...

Graphic reconstructions of unsolved London murders of the interwar years. Shows how the murderers got away with their crimes.Illustrations: 60 blac...

The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries. All her published poetry is...

A sweeping literary tour of the 32 London Boroughs.Illustrations: 6 illustrations

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal...

This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer's Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient G...

The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.Illustrations: 171 Illustrations, black and white

An outstanding collection of some of the best pieces that Christopher Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor...

One of the most investigated serial killers in history (1953, 1983 and 2015)

Gordon Frederick Cummins: Blackout Ripper, or convenient patsy?Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Stephen WynnIllustration(s): 32 black and...

Explores life in the Victorian police force from the time of Jack the Ripper, from training to discovering a murder.

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the ...

The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary time...

Reducere. It is 1941. While the war of chaos rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continue...

This innovative book examines the development of modernist writing in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna.Illustrations: 21 B/W ...

The Tower of London is an iconic building, having held many famous prisoners since it was first built in the 1100s.

The Pursuit of Style in English Drama embraces and expands the concept of style to offer new readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Matthe...

* An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of growing up in the Forest of Dean in the 1920s and 1930s

Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American doctor in London, 1910. Devoted to his wife, music-hall performer Belle Elmore. He said she left him to go to he...