This book follows Clarissa Dalloway through one day as she goes about preparing a party that same evening. This beautiful day brings back memories of her childhood, and ponders her choice of husband – should she have married Mr...
The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...
Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is Britain s capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as an evening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across...
Atmospheric London of the 50s when Trinidadians started to come to England – from the sunny homeland to the grey pavements of England. This is the story of lives and experiences, in a Creole voice.
This is the story of Adebayo, a young Nigerian boy. He is attracted by the notion of Dickensian London and sets off through Africa for Europe, alongside people smugglers and desperate companions. The author has labeled this book as...
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