In East End Chronicles, Ed Glinert explores the dark, unusual & arcane stories of East London in his renowned & absorbing style. Medieval burial ground, Victorian hell hole, Blitz bombing target, modern artists’ playground
- the East End has always been London’s strange alter ego with an identity unlike anywhere else. Here Glinert tells the dark & arcane stories of its streets & people, exploring everything from the mystics of Wellclose Square to the gory Radcliffe Highway murders, from Hugenot silk merchants to the horrors of the Black Death. Revealing the underbelly of the city as never before, Glinert’s account is at turns both surprising & fascinating.“A nuanced, layered picture…fascinating details & links emerge… It is at moment when chronology is exploded & past events reappear in new guises that this book is the most interesting.” _ The Times Literary Supplement_