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Lockdown

Lockdown
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

‘They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren’t good.’ A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the...

London Belongs to Us

London Belongs to Us
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twelve hours, two boys, one girl . . . and a whole lot of hairspray. Seventeen-year-old Sunny’s always been a little bit of a pushover. But when she’s sent a picture of her boyfriend kissing another girl, she knows...

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...

London Under

London Under
  • Author(s): Peter Ackroyd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting...

London, With Love

London, With Love
  • Author(s): Sarra Manning
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

London. Nine million people. Two hundred and seventy tube stations. Every day, thousands of chance encounters, first dates, goodbyes and happy ever afters. And for twenty years it’s been where one man and one woman can never get their...

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...

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