Tag: London

  • Lost London 1870-1945

    Special Price: £19.99 A spectacular collection of more than 500 of the best images from the former London County Council archive of photographs, held by English Heritage for 25 years, but by no means a nostalgic lament for the city.

  • How The Dead Live: Derek Raymond

    Derek Raymond’s quartet of factory novels feature some of the bleakest descriptions of low life London put down on the page. Raymond manages to conjure in his view of 1980’s Britain a similar sense of morbid detail and helplessness that the painter Walter Sickert captured in his portraits of London’s waifs and strays a hundred…

  • I Never Knew that about the River Thames

    Christopher Winn, £9.99 Southend pier is the longest pleasure pier in the world Christopher Winn, author of a whole host of I Never Knew That About… titles turns his attention this time to the Thames – all of it, not just the bit in the middle – in another fascinating and thorough excursion through the…