The City of London" is a major illustrated celebration of the architecture & of the Square Mile. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an historical overview of the Citys development the main part of the book is divided into 8 chapters each devoted to a particular district of the City. Each chapter begins with a 1 500-word introduction (with a specially commissioned map of the district as well as additional illustrations) & then

Includes:: Approx. 25 entries on individual buildings & urban spaces such as squares & public gardens. Each entry is illustrated with 24 images including specially commissioned exterior & interior photographs & selected archival images provided by the London Metropolitan Archives & other City sources. In total there are Approx. 200 entries including major landmarks such as St Pauls Cathedral & 20th-century developments such as the Barbican & each of the bridges that connects the City with the South Bank. The Tower of London although not technically in the City is also covered as its history has been so bound up with that of the Square Mile."

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David Kynastons ground-breaking history of the City of London" published in four volumes between 1994 & 2001 is a modern classic. Skilfully edited into a single volume by David Milner it tells a story as dramatic as any novel while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all underst&. This is a story of booms busts & bankruptcies dress codes eating habits pay humour changing architecture & the unique culture of the Square Mile which brings us up to the modern age." ...

This title is fifth in the international bestselling paranormal thriller series The Mortal Instruments". This is the follow-up to the international number one bestseller " City of Fallen Angels". " The Mortal Instruments" series has over one million books in print. It has been on the New York Times bestseller list for six months straight. The books have been translated into 19 languages & have also appeared on bestseller lists in Germany Ireland Australia New Zealand & Canada. Film rights optioned with Lily Collins & Jamie Campbell Bower cast as leads Clary & Jace. Global cover reveal planned for autumn 2011." ...

The New York Times" bestselling Mortal Instruments continues
- & so do the thrills & danger for Jace Clary & Simon. Clary & the
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The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god. They are stronger heal better & think faster than any humans ever created -- & they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios can stop the engineered killers he has set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. The mad genius had not imagined that his creations would develop minds -- & purposes -- of their own. & as Deucalion & Detectives O' Connor & Maddison race to uncover an age-old conspiracy they will discover that Victor's new enhanced models have infiltrated every level of New Orleans society! & far beyond. Dean Koontz the master storyteller creates a bold new legend. ...

Once in a city known as Bessa there was a sultan named Bokhari Al-Bokhari who was thrown down by the zealots of the ascetic Hakkim Mehdad. The sultan his wives & children were put to the sword while his 365 concubines were sent to a neighbouring caliph as tribute Hakkim having no use for the pleasures of the flesh. But a day after the caravan had departed from Bessa Hakkim discovered the terrible secret that the concubines had hidden from him. His reaction was swift & cruel. Kill the women of the harem forthwith along with their children & maidservants. Let not one survive. Their bodies let the desert claim & their names be fed to silence. This then is the tale
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- of how a remarkable group of women fight together to survive both the fury of Hakkim & the rigours of the desert. It is the tale of Zuleika whose hidden past holds the key to their future & of Rem the librarian whose tears are ink. Of the wise Gursoon who defines the groups conscience & of the silver-tongued thief Anwar Das who knows when to ignore that conscience. This is the tale of the forging of a rabble of concubines children camel-herds & thieves into an army of silk & steel. It is the tale of the redemption & rise of Bessa fabled City of Women. & it is the tale of an act of kindness that carries the seed of death & will return to bring darkness & the end of a dream...

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If Paris is the city of love then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years Englands capital has been associated with desire avarice & the sins of the flesh. Richard of Devises a monk writing in 1180 warned that every quarter [of the city] abounds in great obscenities. As early as the second century AD London was notorious for its raucous festivities & disorderly houses & throughout the centuries the bawdy side of life has taken easy root & flourished. In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the citys relationship with vice through the ages. From the bath houses & brothels of Roman Londinium to the stews & Molly houses of the 17th & 18th centuries London has always traded in the currency of sex. Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street or fancy courtesans parading in Haymarket its streets have long been witness to colourful sexual behaviour. In her usual accessible & entertaining style Arnold takes us on a journey through the fleshpots of London from earliest times to present day. Here are buxom strumpets louche aristocrats popinjay politicians & Victorian flagellants -- all vying for their place in Londons league of licentiousness. From sexual exuberance to moral panic the city has seen the pendulum swing from Puritanism to hedonism & back again. With later chapters looking at Victorian London & the sexual underground of the 20th century & beyond this is a fascinating & vibrant chronicle of London at its most raw & ribald. ...

Desperately unhappy Laura has resorted to secretly self-harming. But Laura is a Stravagante somebody who can travel in time & space. When she finds her talisman a small silver dagger she stravagates with it to sixteenth-century Fortezza a town similar to Lucca in Italy where she meets her Stravagante who is a swordsmith. But Laura also meets the charming & attractive Ludo & falls for him. Their love for each other is tested when Ludo lays claim to the crown of Fortezza & Laura finds herself fighting on the side of the Stravaganti opposing him.. .A thrilling tale filled with battles on the field & battles of the heart. ...

An ecological romance with a pulsing heart equal parts Rider Haggard & Chico Buarque
- one of the worlds greatest & most beloved
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The final never-before-published volume in the noirish gritty urban fantasy for adults from the bestselling Children's author. For ten years Capac Raimi has ruled the City. Created by the first Cardinal to rule after him & continue his legacy Capac cannot be killed. But now Capac has disappeared without trace. His trusted lieutenant Ford Tasso suspects the mysterious villacs. Ancient & powerful these Incan priests are the true masters of the City. Only one man might have the cunning to outwit such deadly adversaries -- Al Jeery who has taken on the guise of his father the terrifying assassin Paucar Wami. Al has no love for Capac & no wish to get mixed up with the villacs. But then Ford promises to give him the one thing in the world he truly craves -- the man who killed those he loved most ruining his life & setting him on his current destructive path. Lured back into the twisted nightmarish world of the Incan priests Al will learn more about the City than he ever imagined & be offered more power than he ever desired. But in the City everything comes at a cost! ...