' Who died?' I said. ' Or is it a secret?' ' My mother Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge & anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre Yanne & her two daughters live peacefully if not happily above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped
- at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l' Alba the lady with the lollipop shoes ruthless devious & seductive. With everything she loves at stake Yanne must face a difficult choice; to flee as she has done so many times before or to confront her most dangerous enemy... Herself.
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Who died? I said. Or is it a secret? My mother Vianne Rocher seeking refuge & anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre Yanne & her daughters Rosette & Annie live peacefully if not happily above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped
- at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l Alba the lady with the lollipop shoes & everything begins to change... But this new friendship is not what it seems. Ruthless devious & seductive Zozie de l Alba has plans of her own
- plans that will shake their world to pieces. & with everything she loves at stake Yanne must face a difficult choice; to flee as she has done so many times before or to confront her most dangerous enemy... Herself.

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Lolly is Lolly Luck by name lucky by nature. She always wins magazine competitions on scratch cards & any game you can think of. But when Lollys dad loses his job & then the family home Lollys luck starts to change. & when she overhears her parents arguing she learns a secret that will change her life forever. ...

Attention all hipsters! In November 2012 the worlds coolest camera brand celebrates its 20th anniversary with the publication of this official two-volume slipcased title. Book I features specially commissioned photography showing off all cameras in the vast Lomography range including every limited edition & the best one-offs ever made. Book II traces the story of the last 20 years of Lomography as seen through the wonderful & varied world of Lomo lenses. Anecdotes & recollections relate the stuff of Lomo legend. Chronologically organized & featuring the very best photographic material from the 1.5 million-strong Lomography community this volume is a snapshot of every corner of the lomographic world. This is an absolute must-have package for designers photographers & hipsters the world over. The future is analogue! ...

London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge & the era dockland development of today. Through the lives & adventures of his colourful cast of characters he brings all the richness of London's past unforgettably to life. ...

Its history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What caused the Great Stink of 1858? Why the flying dustmen were feared? Who ate a tosher for tea? Plot your path to the past with the frightful full-colour map
- take a trip to the terrifying Tower & dip into the River Thames (Londons largest toilet!).
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Like all the great historic cities of Europe London appears to us solid & unchanging. We feel that we can still explore the London of Dickens Dr. Johnson Defoe Wren & even Shakespeare. The very names St Pauls Smithfield Charing Cross St Jamess seem to link us with those past eras. But this solidity is an illusion for throughout its long history London has been changing & evolving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets & buildings at its heart & has been spreading inexorably outwards. This process is vividly illustrated by maps of London that have been drawn & published over the past 500 years; & this book offers a magnificent panorama of Londons history by focusing on its maps. The link between London & Westminster; the devastation of the Great Fire; the emergence of the West End as a place of fashion; the opening of the Royal Parks; the building of the docks; the coming of the railway age; the impact of World Wars
- all these processes & many more are evident in these historic maps. Approx. 200 important maps from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day are illustrated & discussed. For all those who know London but who wish to look behind the modern facade London A Life in Maps" should prove irresistible highlighting the challenge of predicting Londons future development & character."
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Roy Porter a historian of formidable range turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid informative & passionate book... Porters facts are always at the service of the narrative which has a finely maintained momentum balancing statistics with the words of historians diarists & novelists poets & churchmen: Pepys Boswell Fielding Walpole Blake Mayhew Wells Woolf Spark.. .a timely & brilliant book.
- Claire Tomalin Evening Standard". A vivid celebration of the city but also an elegy for its decline bubbling with statistics & anecdote from Boadicea to Betjeman.
- Richard Holmes Daily Telegraph Books of the Year."

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In London: The Autobiography" the life of the capital is told for the first time by those who made it & saw it at first h&. From Roman times to the 21st century Londoners & visitors to the city have recounted the extraordinary events everyday life & character of this unique & influential city
- from politics culture sport religion & reportage. This book brings to vivid life the human trial of the capital including invasions by the Vikings the brutal execution of Sir Thomas More the sight of a whale swimming up the Thames & the rebuilding of St Pauls by Sir Christopher Wren as well as the everyday life of the city. It

Includes:: contributions from George Orwell Martin Amis Dr Johnson Karl Marx Winston Churchill Fyodor Dostoyevsky Virginia Woolfe George Melly Tacitus Samuel Pepys & many others. Packed with personality & character this book is a must-buy for anyone interested in London as well as a wonderful story of the city at the heart of the nation. Praise for Jon E Lewis: A triumph
- Saul David author of " Victorias Army". Harrowing funny & often unbelievable book
- " Daily Express" [A] compelling tommys eye view of war from Agincourt to Iraq
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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life & past of London but here as a culmination is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism with its own laws of growth & change so London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories too in the range & diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century noting magnificence in both epochs but this is not a simple chronological record. There are chapters on the history of silence & the history of light the history of childhood & the history of suicide the history of Cockney speech & the history of drink. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written & confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.' ...