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Author | : Paul Cohen-Portheim |
Publisher | : Batsford Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849947023 |
A new edition of a classic Batsford title from the 1930s. London is brought to life through its people, buildings and history in this classic book, first published in 1935. The Spirit of London presents a wonderful snapshot of our capital before World War II and a charming insight into urban life in the 1930s. Paul Cohen-Portheim was an Austrian traveller and writer who was interned in the UK during World War I. His enforced stay made him fall in love with England and in particular, London. This is his take on the irrepressible city. Chapters include: Towns Within, Town Streets and their Life, Green London, London Amusements and Night Life, Traditional London, London and the British and London and the Foreigner. The book features Brian Cook's iconic illustration of Ludgate Circus and St Paul's on the cover. Add in the charm of the authentic voice of a 1930s Londoner, this book should be enjoyed by all Londoners and London enthusiasts.
Author | : Paul Cohen-Portheim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rob Keeley |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2024-05-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1805148931 |
“The truth will set you free.” When Ellie and her family move into Inchwood Manor, Ellie quickly discovers strange things are happening. Who is the mysterious boy at the window? What secrets lie within the abandoned nursery? Who is the woman who haunts Ellie’s dreams – and why has she returned to the Manor, after more than a century? Ellie finds herself entangled in a Victorian mystery of ghosts and tunnels and secret documents – and discovers that life all those years ago isn’t so different from the world she knows today... First published in 2014, this five star-reviewed children’s novel was longlisted for the Bath and WriteMentor Children’s Novel Awards and nominated for the People’s Book Prize. This is a tenth anniversary special edition with new material and also includes four Spirits short stories never before published in book form. A must for all fans of the Spirits series and Rob Keeley’s work.
Author | : John Ingham |
Publisher | : Anthology Editions |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Punk culture |
ISBN | : 9781944860059 |
Spirit of 76 "provides a previously unseen view of the beginning of the punk movement, with portraits of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, Subway Sect and The Damned at the very beginnings of their careers--the only color photographs from this first wave of British punk (as well as many black-and-white images.
Author | : Olivia Williams |
Publisher | : Headline |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147221532X |
Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the emergence of cocktail bars in the West End, the story is brought right up to date with the resurgence of class in a glass - the Ginnaissance. As gin has crossed paths with Londoners of all classes and professions over the past three hundred years it has become shorthand for metropolitan glamour and alcoholic squalor in equal measure. In and out of both legality and popularity, gin is a drink that has seen it all. Gin Glorious Gin is quirky, informative, full of famous faces - from Dickens to Churchill, Hogarth to Dr Johnson - and introduces many previously unknown Londoners, hidden from history, who have shaped the city and its signature drink.
Author | : Boris Johnson |
Publisher | : HarperPress |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780007511174 |
London's buildings may be famous, London's history may be lengthy and illustrious, but it is London's people who have given and continue to give the city its exuberant and exhiliarating profile. -- Cover.
Author | : Richard Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2011-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1608193411 |
It is common knowledge that, in rich societies, the poor have worse health and suffer more from almost every social problem. This book explains why inequality is the most serious problem societies face today.
Author | : Paul Thurlby |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1492675059 |
An alphabet book to discover the best of London with award-winning illustrator Paul Thurlby! From A for Abbey Road, K for Kew Gardens, L for London Eye, T for Tower Bridge, to Z for London Zoo and more, this striking book is bursting with the sights, sounds, and energy of London! See familiar, iconic landmarks and discover the lesser known charms of the city. London has never been more spectacular! P.S. If you look carefully, you'll notice a sneaky little animal on every spread, exploring the city sights with you!
Author | : Ben Aaronovitch |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-06-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781473222243 |
My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden ... and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair.The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.
Author | : Noël Coward |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2013-12-04 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1408191520 |
I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war.' Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades thereafter. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him. "A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort" Professor Allardyce Nicoll