 | Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
This comprehensive biography of the great 19th-century novelist combines extensive research and documentation, including much new speculation on the nature of his affair with Ellen Ternan, with imaginative reconstruction of the writer's thoughts. Our Price: £8.99
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|  | Characters of Fitzrovia by Marsha Rowe, Mike Pentelow
Brimming with all manner of vignettes and anecdotes, this handsomely illustrated volume reveals the history of an alluring bohemian world, peopled by arbiters of culture both high and low. A cauldron of revolt and romance, garrets and galleries, pubs Our Price: £15.00
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| |  | A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes
'We were just an ordinary, suburban, Victorian family, undistiguished ourselves and unacquainted with distinguished people.' Thus Molly Hughes in her Preface to one of the great classics of autobiography, A London Child of the 1870s that she wrote Our Price: £12.00
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 | Clouds of Glory by Bryan Magee
The memoirs of a working-class childhood in the 1930 Hoxton, by Bryan Magee - writer, journalist, academic, philosopher, radio and television broadcaster and member of parliament. Our Price: £7.99
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The places Melanie McGrath describes have largely vanished now. This evocative and deeply moving family memoir recreates the lost East End and the struggles of those who live there. Our Price: £6.99
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 | London Born by Sidney Day
Sid was born in Highgate in 1912 in 'a street where there was so much villainry going on, so many drunks and gambling and gawd knows what, that at night the police would only come down in twos. Everyone knew it as Tiger Bay.' Our Price: £9.99
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| |  | The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl
In 1593 The Controversial Young Playwright Christopher Marlowe Was Stabbed To Death In A Deptford Lodging-house.This brilliant book presents the first and finest examination of the mysterious and violent death in Deptford of Christopher Marlowe, p Our Price: £7.99
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 | Hogarth: A Life and a World by Jenny Uglow
William Hogarth moved in the worlds of theatre, literature, journalism and politics, and found subjects for his work over the whole gamut of 18th-century London, from street scenes to drawing rooms, and from churches to gambling halls and prisons. Our Price: £20.00
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 | Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson
Vere Hodgson worked for a Notting Hill Gate charity during the Second World War; she was not going to let Hitler make a difference to her life, but the beginning of the Blitz did, which is why she began her published diaries on 25 June 1940: Our Price: £12.00
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 | Mother Country by Jeremy Harding
"Mother Country" is a powerful true story, full of thrilling revelations, comic confusion, and tender memories, about a man looking for the mother he'd never known, and finding out how little he'd understood about the one he'd grown up Our Price: £14.99
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 | Why Me? by Tony Hurley
Written with honesty, humanity and integrity this is a book about one man's struggle with manic depression. Our Price: £5.00
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| |  | Nobody's Child by A C Young
Description "Why do they say it's wrong that I'm reaching for the stars?" The night I was conceived Norma, my biological mother, was at a party and met the man who would be my father but...[More] Our Price: £10.00
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| |  | Jamie Oliver Effect by Gilly Smith
Smith asks if it was Jamie who struck the match, or whether it was simply time to turn up the heat under a world finally ready to feed itself Our Price: £8.99
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