In the disreputable dance-halls and 'houses of accommodation' of 1870s London a boastful killer selects his prey. Are these random acts of malevolence or is there a connection between the terrible murders, a mysterious theft at the Abney Park Ceme

An evocative guidebook from a time long gone by of villages to the north west of London and served by the Metropolitan Railway. Also filled with facts of interest, ticket prices, journey times and promotional posters advertising the new housing devel

Ex London Met. policeman Jimmy Jenner is now a private detective. Hired to work on a what should be a straightforward divorce case, the stakes are soon raised.

It's the oldest story in the world: Boy meets Girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But when the boy is Nick Sharman, and the girl has a violent ex-jailbird as an old boyfriend, it's never going to be that simple...

Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and only cares about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and the adrenalin. Until one day...she makes a mistake.

Their leader on the pitch and arguably their most important player in a generation, John Terry re-lives the excitement and the passion of a record-breaking season

In Highbury, Bruce Smith exhaustively chronicles the life and times of Arsenal's legendary stadium in North London, from the site's humble beginnings as a college to its present status as one of the most recognisable and beautiful pieces of footbal

Full of rare and atmospheric postcards and photographs, this book shows how the City of London used to be.

Drawing Upon Extracts From Contemporary Letters, Diaries And Memoirs Of Fascinating Inhabitants And Visitors, This Anthology Tells The Story Of London From Its Earliest Years Up To The Present Day.

With more than 700 reviews of the best-value restaurants, cafes and pubs in town, Time Out's Cheap Eats in London is the city's essential guide to eating out on a budget.

In Speak of Me As I Am, Southwark historian Stephen Bourne documents the lives of a number of Black historical figures who have been associated with the London Borough of Southwark.

The guidebooks in this series select the best a destination has to offer in an accessible, light, pocket-sized format.

A guide to the best bargains in London and where to find them.

The nasty bits of London's glorious and goriest history -

This is a brilliant sticker guide book for young visiters to London and great way to learn about England's capital. With over 100 stickers.

A gripping mystery from an incedibly talented author and write of the incredible Dark Materials trilogy.

In a bid to escape from a mysterious pursuer, Yoshi takes refuge below the streets of London -

Convicts, murderers and the shady inhabitants of the London underworld are part of daily life for 12-year-old printer's devil,

Evelyn Waugh's wonderful satire, set in 1920's Mayfair and follows the young and bored affluent set.

Sent Down From Oxford For Indecent Behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather Embarks On A Series Of Bizarre Adventures That Start In A Minor Public School And End In One Of Hm Prisons....[More]

A short, entertaining and passionate history of London by the bestselling author of THE VICTORIANS

in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows.

Stephen Knight produces startling new evidence that the hitherto unsolved Ripper murders were in fact the culmination of a full-scale cover-up organised by the highest level of government and extending to the monarchy itself...

Lucian Gregory and Gabriel Syme both dress as poets. In this disturbing fantasy, one is an Anarchist and the other is a policeman.

A 35-year-old Architect Is Driving Home From His London Office When His Car Swerves And Crashes Onto A Traffic Island Lying Below Three Converging Motorways. Uninjured, He Climbs The Embankment To...[More]

Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit.

More Of Those Poems On The Underground - The Complete 2002-04 Collection.

Dickens's Dictionary of London 1888 captures the atmosphere and vitality of what was then the largest city in the world, the heart not just of the nation but also of a great Empire.

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Using magic and myth, this is a story of sexual awakening.

London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head.

Plunged into one drama after another by the large and irrepressible Merriville family, Alverstoke is surprised to find himself far from bored.

The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune,

Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference, but when he learns that his cousin Adrian is bent on marrying the beautiful Deborah Grantham, he meets an opponent that he is unprepared for.

Jane Is Unmarried And Pregnant When She Is Turned Out By Her Father. She Lights On A Room At The Top Of A Squalid House. She Cares Nothing For It, Or Her Neighbours. But It Is These Neighbours That...[More]

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Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? can people have terrible taste still be worth knowing?

In These Stories, Raffles, The Public-school Gentleman, Mixes His Aptitude For Cricket With His Passion For Crime.

Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as

Robinson is a persuader. He uses his voice to win and manipulate, and the narrator of this novel knows he would still fall for Robinson's charm. It led him into the night-world of Soho, of seedy pubs, sexual fantasies, violence and betrayal.

Eighteen Stories Depicting The People And Places Of London, Full Of The Observation And Compassion Characteristic Of Lessing.

Dangerous and dark connections of the heart reveal themselves in Nick Royle's novel - a gripping narrative of loss and redemption.

This pocket size wire 'O' bound publication of central London is designed for the tourist as both an atlas and a guide.

Beginning in the docks of the East End of London, this title moves along the Thames westwards, following the flow of commerce from the unloading of goods at Tilbury to the crowds of shoppers on Oxford Street.

HUNDREDS OF QUOTES FROM FOOTBALL'S TOP 'PROFESSOR'

The third book in the now famous "Brentford Trilogy",

Winner Of The 1990 James Tate Memorial Prize For Biography.

This book surveys 1000 years of commercial sex in London, from the Bishop of Bankside's licensed brothels to the sleazy massage parlours and suburban brothels of today's city.

Set In London In 1989, The Year Of The Fatwah And The Fall Of The Berlin Wall,

A book that tells the story of London since the thirties through the 28 streets, stations and utililties of the Monopoly board . In the wonderful world of Monopoly it still only costs £50 to buy a house in Islington, you can move around Lo

More Than Just An Improbable Tale And One Of The Most Colourful Case Studies In The History Of Madness, This Text Is A Portrait Of A Society Poised To Break Through Into The Modern Age.

The fascinating story of Dora Jordan, one of the most popular and successful theatrical stars of the eighteenth century. She became the mistress of William IV, bore him ten children, but died alone and neglected, having been elided from the royal bio

Greenwich. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome.

In The Bawdy Music Halls Of The Late-19th Century, Nan Is Captivated By Kitty Butler, A Male Impersonator.

A Mystery Which Combines Rich Historical Narrative With The Story Of A Woman Entangled In A 21st-century Witch Hunt.

Written in the early 1930s, 'Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky' displays Patrick Hamilton's talent for understanding the milieu at the side of the bar and recently the subject of a three part BBC dramatisation.

Behind the façade of a Soho shop selling dubious merchandise lives Verloc with his wife Winnie, her mother and her retarded brother, Stevie. Verloc is an overweight, indolent anarchist who conceals his political activities, such as they now ar

Patricia Cornwell Uses The Demanding Methods Of Modern Forensic Investigation To Re-examine The Evidence In The Jack The Ripper Murders.

No-one in the annals of crime is capable of arousing such passionate debate as the perpetrator of the Whitechapel Murders in 1888. Was he a demented royal, a Masonic assassin, a misogynist don, a member of the Czarist secret police, a crazed reformis