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Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho

Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho
  • Author(s): Clayton Littelwood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

This started as a blog – set in Old Compton Street it chronicles the people, the setting and the feel of Soho. A wonderful journey through the streets and backwaters of this part of London, poignant and funny.

Disbanded Kingdom

Disbanded Kingdom
  • Author(s): Polis Loizou
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Current

Twenty-two-year-old Oscar is a lost cause. He roams central London looking for love and distraction. But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an...

Dominion

Dominion
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): Birmingham, Brighton, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian...

Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): London, Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s

You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.’ George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris...

Downriver

Downriver
  • Author(s): Iain Sinclair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Downriver is constructed as twelve interlocking narratives, in which Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher’s reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what’s left of London’s...

East End Jubilee

East End Jubilee
  • Author(s): Carol Rivers
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

This appeared und the original title of Rose of Ruby Street. June 2nd, 1953. The residents of Ruby Street in London’s East End are celebrating the new Queen’s coronation. It’s a day of joy and laughter, a new beginning...

Edgware Road

Edgware Road
  • Author(s): Yasmin Cordery Khan
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s and 2000s

A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity, from an award-winning historian. 1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky ones. He works nights in the glitzy West End, and comes home every morning to his beautiful...

Elijah’s Mermaid

Elijah’s Mermaid
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

Since she was found as a baby, floating in the Thames one foggy night, the web-toed Pearl has been brought up in a brothel known as the House of Mermaids. Cosseted and pampered there, it is only when her...

England Expects

England Expects
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Brighton, Cambridge, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1953, Brighton, London and Cambridge. When sports hack Joey Gillingham is murdered in a barber’s chair the reason he is in Brighton for the day is unclear. His body is whisked away mysteriously and ex-Secret Service backroom girl Mirabelle...

England’s Lane

England’s Lane
  • Author(s): Joseph Connolly
  • Location(s): England, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England’s Lane, each with an only child, and each attending to family, and their livelihoods – the ironmonger, the sweetshop and the...

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