Maxine Davies writes an emotive story of growing up within an unconventional & often chaotic family during the early 1950s. Love was buried under the mound of family problems." As the eldest child Maxine helped her mother bring up the other children. Her father was a musician who travelled the world so visited the family infrequently. Maxine recalls some very personal experiences of her early years her family ancestry travels abroad & latterly of her success & fulfilment of a career in child care." ...

This work is the first to study the gentlemens clubs that were an important feature the Late Victorian landscape in London & the first to discover the secret history of clubmen & their world. The wealthy men of the British upper classes have often been segregated to the realm of biography or family history lumped in with their middle-class rivals or dismissed as irrelevant in the larger story of Victorian Britain. This book places the English gentleman at center stage detailing how clubland dramatically shaped nineteenth & early twentieth-century ideas about gender domesticity power class & the city. ...

Children will discover the magic & excitement of London with this brilliant new colouring book. From Trafalgar Square to Tower Bridge & Piccadilly Circus to Portobello Road children will be able to put their own colourful stamp on one of the worlds most vibrant cities. The capital will come alive with bright buses & boats cheery Covent Garden performers pearly kings & queens & period patterns. Packed with beautiful & distinctive illustrations featuring a variety of London attractions this is a book to enchant every child. ...

A colouring book for budding artists. It features black & white drawings of many of the main sights to be seen in London from buildings & people to statues & transport. It

Includes:: line drawings that allow the readers to colour them in their own style. Each picture is accompanied by simple but interesting facts about London.

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The streets of London resonate with secret stories from East End lore to Cold War espionage from tales of riots rakes anarchy & grisly murders to Rolling Stones gigs gangland drinking dens Orwells Fitzrovia & Lenins haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the length & breadth of the city to unravel its mysteries travelling through time from the Romans London wall to the new Olympic site at Stratford. This is London as you have never seen it before. ...

This is not a guidebook. & it is definitely not-for-parents. It is the real inside story about one of the worlds most famous cities -- London. In this book youll hear fascinating tales about famous & infamous people creepy underground places dark history & strange characters galore. Check out cool stories about graffiti artists murdered princes & people from all over. Youll find royalty punks & sleuths & some amazingly weird food. Heard about the abseilers who wash a clockface for a living? Would you want to eat jellied eels? How could anyone be lucky to be beheaded? Whatever does this is my trouble & strife mean? This book shows you a London your parents probably dont even know about. ...

This lunch cruise & London Eye package is perfect for those who want to make the most of their day in the capital. You will enjoy a wonderful three course lunch cruise on a luxurious vessel which creates the perfect atmosphere for guests to indulge & relax whilst experiencing some of the best views of London from the Thames. Followed by a flight on the London Eye. At 135 metres The London Eye is the worlds tallest observation wheel with 40 kilometre panoramic views on a clear day. New to the London Eye is the groundbreaking 4D film which features theatre effects such as wind bubbles & mist to make the 4th dimension. This short film takes place in County Hall & is about a girl struggling to see the landmarks of London until she rides the London Eye. You will receive two vouchers to take part in your experience one for the lunch cruise & one for the London Eye. The lunch cruise boards between 12pm
- 12.30pm at the Embankment Pier & you can choose to experience the Eye before or after your lunch cruise time slots for the London Eye are available on a half hourly basis. Before boarding the London Eye you will need to exchange your voucher for London Eye tickets in the County Hall ticket office. If you would like to visit the 4D Experience before your flight we would advise you to check in 45 minutes before your flight time alternatively you can visit at your leisure after your flight on the London Eye. We recommend that you book a date for the lunch cruise before booking the London Eye. Please note the London Aquarium is next door to the London Eye. What You Will Receive On purchasing this experience you will receive a Silver A5 Presentation Pack. Your Silver A5 Presentation Pack is embossed with a ribbon design great if you are buying this experience as a gift. Included within your presentation pack: Your Gift Experience Voucher
- Keep this safe! You will need this to book your experience & may be required to take this with you on the day of your experience. An Information Booklet
- Detailing all you need to know about your experience including personal injury cover cancellation cover & full terms & conditions of the experience. How to Book Guide
- A personal guide based on your chosen experience detailing all the available locations & contact numbers you need to ensure you experience runs smoothly. "



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When Ted & Kat watched their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye he turned & waved before getting on. After half an hour it landed & everyone trooped off
- but no Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Since the police are having no luck finding him Ted & Kat become sleuthing partners. Despite their prickly relationship they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. & ultimately it comes down to Ted whose brain works in its own very unique way to find the key to the mystery. This is an unputdownable spine-tingling thriller!
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The dark is rising.. . Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career. Then his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. Furious Quill pursues the investigation co-opting intelligence analyst Lisa Ross & undercover cops Costain & Sefton. But nothing about Toshack's murder is normal. Toshack had struck a bargain with a vindictive entity whose occult powers kept Toshack one step ahead of the law -- until his luck ran out. Now the team must find a 'suspect' who can bend space & time & alter memory itself. & they will kill again. As the group starts to see London's sinister magic for themselves they have two choices: panic or use their new abilities. Then they must hunt a terrifying supernatural force the only way they know how: using police methods equipment & tactics. But they must all learn the rules of this new game
- & quickly. More than their lives will depend on it. ' He's gone & written a novel too! I suspect it will be just as good as everything else he's written & that's not fair at all' George R R Martin
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Enjoy a fascinating fact-filled journey through London & discover the stories & secrets of one of the largest cities in the world in this vibrant adaptation of Matteo Pericolis breathtaking book LONDON UNFURLED. Matteos astonishing project to illustrate a continuous 20 mile journey along the north & south banks of the Thames took him two years to complete. Now the two 37-foot-long pen-&-ink drawings can be enjoyed in vibrant colour with eye-opening (and eye-watering) facts; from the battles of Roman London & the Princes in the Tower to the Gunpowder Plot & the great Victorian stink! ...