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London Buildings Colouring Book

London Buildings Colouring Book
  • Author(s): Hannah Dipper, Robin Farquhar
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): From 16th Century onwards

This exquisite colouring book, a design object in its own right, contains 45 stylish line illustrations of London’s most iconic buildings, created by influential design duo Robin Farquhar and Hannah Dipper of People Will Always Need Plates. These outstanding...

Londoners

Londoners
  • Author(s): Craig Taylor
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Here are the voices of London – rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men (and a Sarah who used to be a George) – witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed Canadian journalist, playwright and writer, who has...

Love in the strangest of places

Love in the strangest of places
  • Author(s): M Alexander
  • Location(s): Bangkok, London, Moscow

Dan changes his mind on holiday to Bangkok. He sees the girls and the drinks and forgets about work with the rest but something is not right. He returns to London and takes the chance of redundancy when it...

Mortmain Hall

Mortmain Hall
  • Author(s): Martin Edwards
  • Location(s): London, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

ENGLAND, 1930. Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London’s Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true purpose. But Rachel Savernake is not one of the...

Mother London

Mother London
  • Author(s): Michael Moorcock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A large, though never sprawling, novel Mother London follows three mental-hospital outpatients Mary Gasalee, David Mummery and Josef Kiss and their friends, in an episodic, non-linear history of the capital from the Blitz to present day. Most noteworthy is...

Mr Chicken Lands on London

Mr Chicken Lands on London
  • Author(s): Leigh Hobbs
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

From the creator of the much-loved Mr Chicken Goes to Paris comes another madcap adventure this time it s London and Mr Chicken wants to see all of it! Mr Chicken lands in London, checks in at the Savoy...

Mr Loverman

Mr Loverman
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): Hackney, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting...

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)

Murder At Abbeymead Farm (Flora Steele #6)
  • Author(s): Merryn Allingham
  • Location(s): Brighton, London, Sussex Downs
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1957

Amateur detective duo Flora Steele and Jack Carrington have gained a reputation for crime-solving. But will they be able to untangle the latest baffling murder in the cosy village of Abbeymead? Sussex, 1957: When Flora and Jack hear that...

My Only Child

My Only Child
  • Author(s): Sam Vickery
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There he is, my baby boy. His eyes are closed, his tiny rosebud mouth is pursed in sleep. My eyes well up as I catch a whiff of his newborn skin and I swallow back a wave of emotion....

My Story: Blitz

My Story: Blitz
  • Author(s): Vince Cross
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A book about Edie and her family during the London Blitz in 1940-1941.It gives accounts of the dangers and what life really was like in London during the Blitz.

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