A guide to London's distinctive Blue Plaques
- commemorating the remarkable men & women, who have lived in the capital. It describes
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An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships & deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness & fortitude of a community determined to survive between the wars. ' When I look back, I can picture the old gels chinwagging on their steps in the Bay like it was yesterday. Little did they think that young Sid, passing by with his arse out of his trousers, would one way publish his memoirs!' ' Ordinary' people do not write their stories, believing their lives to be unremarkable. Some, like Sid, cannot write at all. But, with the aid of his granddaughter Helen Day, Sid has produced an extraordinary memoir of a city & a way of life now lost forever. ? London Born? is a book that has appeared against all the odds ? as Sid says, ' When me granddaughter Helen Day said she wanted to record the story of the first half of me life & turn it into a book I was astonished. I thought to meself, Well, I've done a lot of things, but I never dreamt I'd get into the book game. You see, I can't write more than me own name.' In ? London Born?, Sid remembers the city that emerged from the First World War & recreates the daily life of the people living in the notorious street known as ' Tiger Bay'. He describes the drinking & merrymaking, the poverty & unemployment ? & the 'villainry'. With relish he relates how youthful high spirits & a refusal to accept the hardship of the times sometimes put him & his friends on the wrong side of the law. He goes on to tell of the wartime mayhem endured by Londoners & his determination to survive. His story closes with demobilisation when he returns to his wife & young family ? 'the only thing that ever counted'. This is a memoir from a warm & cheeky voice; from someone who remembers, as if it were yesterday, parading down Archway in his fifty-bob suit, or running rings around Ernie Costen, the local policeman. ...

London Bridge, Simon Smith's fourth collection of poetry, is an accessible, funny & immediate book of poems about life in the City amidst the contingent camera-shake & confusions of the everyday. The book concentrates on the experience of living in London
- a book which is accessible, contemporary & sassy.
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Toys & Games Jigsaw Puzzles Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning London Bridge at Night image! This picture perfect ...

This is the tenth book in the Alex Cross series. Alex Cross, FBI agent, is back in his most explosive adventure yet. & so is the Wolf. & so is the Weasel. Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets the call. A town in Nevada has been annihilated & the Russian super-criminal known as the Wolf is claiming responsibility. Major cities around the globe are threatened with total destruction & the thought of such dark genius at work makes Alex's blood run cold. Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger. Full of the high-voltage action & enthralling intrigue for which James Patterson is best known, LONDON BRIDGES is an unforgettable thriller that will grip you from cover to cover. ...

Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning London by Night image! This picture-perfect puzzle

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Where would we be without the traditional London caff? Milk bars, ice--cream parlours & espresso bars are all a feature of the London landscape that were borne out of the 1940s to 1960s. It is a time when floods of immigrants set up their businesses providing frothy coffee to the city's workers. ...

London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists & writers, musicians & fashion designers seeking inspiration & success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture
- creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic
- that sprang up in this great city in the decades following the Second World War. Here are the heady post-war days when suddenly everything seemed possible, the jazz bars & clubs of the fifties, the teddy boys & the Angry Young Men, Francis Bacon & the legendary Colony Club, the 1960s & the Summer of Love, the rise of punk & the early days of the YBAs. The vitality & excitement of this time & years of change
- & the sheer creative energy in the throbbing heart of London
- leap off the pages of this evocative & original book.



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London Calling is a poignant, warm-hearted & engaging saga of Clapham, south London's women during the Second World War, for readers of Kate Thompson, Annie Murray & Katie Flynn.

It will take more than Hitler's Luftwaffe to break the spirit of the residents of Lavender Road. If courage & resilience could win wars, the conflict would already be over.

It's not all harmony, though. Nurse Molly Coogan & would-be actress Jen Carter certainly don't see eye to eye. Molly, despite hating the discipline of wartime hospital life, is unimpressed by Jen's prima donna ways. Jen, unaware of Molly's secret heartache, can't resist taking her own frustrations out on Molly. It's just as well that no one knows what challenges lie ahead...

From stolen glasses in the Flag & Garter to fancy dinners in the heart of the West End, from a desperate battle for survival on a hospital ward to a torpedo hitting its target in the Mediterranean Sea, LONDON CALLING takes readers into a world of ordinary people living extraordinary lives.

This paperback book has 634 pages & measures: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.8cm







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Details: Can you win an election & cover up murder at the same time? When Inspector John Carlyle finds a body in a luxury
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