London Under

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385531516
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Under written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface. There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to penetrate history, and Ackroyd's book is filled with the stories unique to this underworld: the hydraulic device used to lower bodies into the catacombs in Kensal Green cemetery; the door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge that leads to a huge tunnel packed with cables for gas, water, and telephone; the sulphurous fumes on the Underground's Metropolitan Line. Highly imaginative and delightfully entertaining, London Under is Ackroyd at his best.

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625676077
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whispers Underground written by Ben Aaronovitch and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This fast, engrossing novel is enjoyable, cheerful, and accessible to new readers.’ — Publishers Weekly My name is Peter Grant, police officer, apprentice wizard and well dressed man about town. I work for ECD9, otherwise known as the Folly, and to the Murder Investigation Team as ‘oh god not them again.’ But even their governor, the arch sceptic and professional northerner DCI Seawoll, knows that sometimes, when things go bump in the night, they have to call us in. Which was why I found myself in an underground station at five o’clock, looking at the body of James Gallagher, US citizen and Arts Student. How did he avoid the underground’s ubiquitous CCTV to reach his final destination, and why is the ceramic shard he was stabbed with so strongly magical? As the case took me into the labyrinth of conduits, tunnels and abandoned bomb shelters that lay beneath the streets I realised that London below might just be as complicated and inhabited as London above. And worse, James Gallagher’s father is a US senator, so the next thing I know, I’ve got Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds of the FBI “liaising” with the investigation and asking awkward questions. Such as ‘just what are you guys hiding down here’ and ‘how did you conjure that light out thin air?’ LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL Reviews for Whispers Underground ‘One of the most refreshing things about former Doctor Who writer Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series of magical procedurals is that they are blessedly free of manufactured rivalries.... This fast, engrossing novel is enjoyable, cheerful, and accessible to new readers.’ — Publishers Weekly ‘Ben Aaronovitch writes some of the funniest prose in current fantasy. These books are extremely entertaining, mainly because narrator Peter Grant has a hilarious voice and a sly sense of humor... quirkily effective prose and dry humor, making it a pure pleasure to read.’ — Tor.com ‘The prose is witty, the plot clever and the characters incredibly likeable...’ — Time Out

Author : Patrick Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349141487
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky written by Patrick Hamilton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters 'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s. This is a world where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars - a world of twenty thousand streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, wasted dreams and lost desires.

Author : Michael Foley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075247622X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Under Attack written by Michael Foley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London has been under attack for literally centuries. Michael Foley’s book records the dramatic military history of the capital from Roman times until the Second World War and beyond. Throughout its early history London was at the centre of hostilities, not always instigated by foreign enemies, but more often from the city’s own inhabitants or those from other parts of Britain. As well as the terrible Blitz on London during the Second World War, earlier conflicts which made an impact on the city are also documented, including the Civil Wars of twelfth and seventeenth centuries, the wars between King John and the barons, uprisings against the poll tax, the Gordon Riots and numerous other rebellions and conflicts that have been largely forgotten in the twenty-first century. London Under Attack is a must-read for all those interested in military history as well as the turbulent history of our nation’s capital and draws some interesting comparisons between the past and modern times.

Author : Jordi Llavina
Publisher : Fum d'Estampa Press
ISBN 13 : 1913744108
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Under Snow written by Jordi Llavina and published by Fum d'Estampa Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six stories about Christmas and winter from award-winning writer, Jordi Llavina. Llavina's stories conjure up ghosts from the past, old loves and distant memories in six hauntingly written tales that focus on our relationships with our loved ones and ourselves over the Christmas period.

Author : Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387014384
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II written by Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385344891
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court Life Below Stairs. Or, London Under the First Georges, 1714-1760 written by Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Bill Luckin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987449
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mighty Capital under Threat written by Bill Luckin and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city’s numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245793
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden London written by David Bownes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180948634
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down and Out in Paris and London written by George Orwell and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.