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  • London Belongs to Me

    by Norman Collins ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie; ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ed Glinert ...
    A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, the inimitable detective Sherlock HolmesThis collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled room in Baker Street to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Diary of a Nobody

    by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Ed Glinert ...
    'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh'The jewel at the heart of English comic literature' William TrevorMr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Sign of Four

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Manchester Compendium

    A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City

    by Ed Glinert ...
    In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city. Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage., Peterloo and Engel's treatise on the conditions of the working classes its political history and the Manchester Guardian and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The London Compendium

    by Ed Glinert ...
    The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the length and breadth of the city to unravel its mysteries, travelling through time from the Romans' London wall to the new Olympic site at ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • East End Chronicles

    by Ed Glinert ...
    The East End: Roman burial ground, medieval rubbsih tip, Victorian hell hole, WW2 bombing aarget, 21st century gentrification template. Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gve way to deeo-water docks and sweatshops. East End Chronicles tells the story of this part of London tht has always enthralled ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Literary London

    A Street by Street Exploration of the Capital's Literary Heritage

    by Ed Glinert ...
    From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists throughout the centuries have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and retaurants and strolled in its parks and gardens. They have been inspired by its monuments, churches, law courts and theatres and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Martyrs and Mystics

    by Ed Glinert ...
    A guided tour of Britain’s spiritual heritageDid Joseph of Arimathea really bring the holy grail to Glastonbury? Why do many conspicracy theorists believe architects such as Wren and Hawksmoore secretly built London according to principles from the Old Testament? What were the true reasons for the executions of martyrs such as Ridley, Wycliffe and Cranmer?All these intriguing questions, and many ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • West End Chronicles

    300 Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London

    by Ed Glinert ...
    The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists. They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries. The exploits of these and many other colourful characters are recounted in Ed Glinert's latest volume. Packed with ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan

    by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert ...
    Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas.From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • I, Claudius

    by Robert Graves ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **'Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of imagination' Hilary MantelBringing to life the intrigue of ancient Rome, Robert Graves's I, Claudius is one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written**Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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