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London born
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Sidney Day |
A 93-year-old man remembers the lost London of his misspent youth. Funny, irreverent, warm-hearted, his is a voice straight from the past. |
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Hopping
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Melanie McGrath |
The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys – the locals of the old East End.For more than a century, hopping was the main event in th… |
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Love, Nina
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Nina Stibbe |
In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described her trials and triumphs. |
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Shadows of the workhouse
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Jennifer Worth |
In the follow up to her bestselling Call the Midwide, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy and Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died… |
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Keeping My Sisters Secrets
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Beezy Marsh |
346 pages ; 20 cm |
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A London year
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Nick Rennison,Travis Elborough |
A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twe… |
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Polly
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Mary R. Smith |
This title presents the memoirs of a girl born into a close-knit East End family in 1911. |
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Sweeney Todd
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Peter Haining |
Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent i… |
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