London's buildings may be famous, & its history may be lengthy & illustrious, but it's London's people who have given, & continue to give, the city its exuberant & exhilarating profile. London of the Olympic & Jubilee summer displayed Londoners on a world stage, but this is a city which has always lived on the energy & skills of its people, drawn to the capital from all over the country & the world. Boris Johnson shares with us his pleasure at London's vitality & unique character, & selects the people who in his view have contributed so much to the spirit of London -- some very famous figures, some more obscure. He

Includes:: everyone from the Romans to one of the author's predecessors as mayor, Dick Whittington; from John Wilkes (a strong upholder of the freedom of the press) to J.W. Turner; from Chaucer to Gandhi, & through to modern times.

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A reissue of a truly classic title on the Batsford backlist. First published in 1935, it is a wonderful snapshot of our capital before the Second World War, & a charming insight into our attitudes to urban life back in the Thirties. Our posh guide Cohen-Portheim offers us his interpretation of life in London through her people, her buildings & her history.

The chapters include: Towns within Town Streets & their Life Green London London & the Arts London Amusements & Night Life Hotels & Restaurants Traditional London London & the British London & the Foreigner (surprisingly liberal!) It

Includes:: the iconic Brian Cook cover illustration of Ludgate Circus & St Pauls, & should be sought after for that alone. Add in the charm of the authentic voice of a 1930s Londoner, it should be enjoyed by all Londoners.

Perfect for Londoners.

This hardback book has 114 pages & measures: 22 x 14.5 x 3.5cm approx.







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The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, & in the pages of " Tom Brown's Schooldays"
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Eli Monpress is brilliant. He's incorrigible. & he's a thief. He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have turned, because Miranda has a new job
- & an opportunity to capture a certain thief. Things are about to get exciting for Eli. He's picked a winner for his newest heist. His target: the Duke of Gaol's famous 'thief-proof' citadel. Eli knows Gaol is a trap, but what's life without challenges? Except the Duke is one of the wealthiest men in the world, a wizard who rules his duchy with an iron fist, & an obsessive perfectionist with only one hobby: Eli. It seems that everyone is hunting for Eli Monpress. This book has 441 pages & is 12.6 x 19.7 x 3.4 cm
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Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. & he's a thief. But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age
- & he's also
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Books History Books Despite the many films & television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men & women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought & won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just twenty years old. Many of the men & women who designed & built their planes were even younger. Based on the hit BBC World Service podcast Spitfire: The People's Story, we use contemporary diaries & memoirs, many of them previously unpublished, to tell the story of the Spitfire through the voices of the teenagers who risked everything to design, build & fly her. This isn't a story of stiff-upper lips, stoical moustaches & aerial heroics; it's a story of love & loss, a story of young people tested to the very limits of their endurance. Young people who won a battle that turned a war. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781472281999 • Author: Alasdair Cross • Publisher: Headline • Format: Paperback • Pages: 368 • Dimensions: 19.69 x 12.7 x 2.29 cm   ...

The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during

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Captured by an unknown enemy & forced to wage war on his rivals, the Dragon Queen has found herself hated & feared by all the people of this new l&.

There is little they can do to hurt her while she has her dragon, but she cannot escape while the magic necklace she is forced to wear remains active
- or it will throttle her. & the enemies of her new master are gathering for revenge...

Lost in a body that isnt his own, Berren
- the Bloody Judge
- continues his search for the man who stole his life. Accompanied by a single Adamantine soldier, they scrabble to survive in a world shaken by the Dragon Queens attack & suspicious of all those who are strangers.

But there is another power inside Berren, one which escapes when he is in danger & has the habit of disintegrating those around him. & that power has its own agenda... one that will lead it to the Dragon Queen, & battle.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780575100589
• Author: Stephen Deas
• Publisher: Orion
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 527
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3.5cm
















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She'll never stop running. But he'll never stop looking...

A year ago Felicity Lloyd fled England to south Georgia,

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The Lanarkshire colliery village of Blacklaw is a harsh & unforgiving place, but it is home to the ambitious, hard-working Stalker family. Until the morning in March 1875, when a mining disaster takes a hundred lives & changes their world forever. The underground explosion kills their menfolk, but not their ambitions, their pride or their love for one another. Drew Stalker is the young man on whom their hopes rest. But it is on his sisters Kate & Mirren that the burden of saving their family will fall. ...