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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
London born London born 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. OL12948166W
Hopping Hopping 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… OL14963709W
Slave Slave Mende Nazer This book is the true story of Mende Nazer, of her lost childhood and her fight for survival. As a young Sudanese girl, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery and only managed to escape to freedom i… OL15857903W
The perfect gentleman The perfect gentleman Imran Ahmad "Imran Ahmad shares his story of life as a Pakistani Muslim growing up in England in this coming-of-age memoir"--Provided by the publisher. OL16142510W
A Street Cat Named Bob A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen The moving, uplifiting true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life. When James Bowen found an injured, ginger st… OL17538453W
Love, Nina Love, Nina 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. OL18165872W
The art of failing The art of failing Anthony McGowan "Anthony McGowan is a man at odds with the universe. Stumbling from one improbable fiasco to the next, he patrols the mean streets of West Hampstead like some unholy cross between Columbo, J. Alfred … OL19726167W
A street cat named Bob A street cat named Bob James Bowen When London street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. OL19966317W
Shadows of the workhouse Shadows of the workhouse 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… OL20006631W
Keeping My Sisters Secrets Keeping My Sisters Secrets Beezy Marsh 346 pages ; 20 cm OL20689274W
A gift from Bob A gift from Bob James Bowen From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A ST… OL20865325W
Long time no see Long time no see Hannah Lowe "Without a doubt, Hannah Lowe's father 'Chick', a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family - except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary… OL20868554W
'We ain't got no drink, Pa' 'We ain't got no drink, Pa' Hilda Kemp Growing up in the slums of 1920s and 30s Bermondsey, Hilda Kemp's childhood was one of chaos and fear. Hilda knew what it was to grow up in desperate poverty, what it was to feel hunger. The eldest o… OL20869333W
Yr hen ddyddiadau Yr hen ddyddiadau John Pierce Jones The autobiography of John Pierce Jones who was brought up in the rural area of Niwbwrch (Newborough), Anglesey, and whose life changed dramatically when his mother remarried, moving the family to the… OL24194413W
A London year A London year 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… OL24421528W
Polly Polly Mary R. Smith This title presents the memoirs of a girl born into a close-knit East End family in 1911. OL24846662W
Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd 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… OL3151699W
London London Peter Ackroyd "London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosy… OL47993W
Gladiatrix Gladiatrix Amy Zoll "These may be the only remains of a gladiator ever found. The evidence that they were female not only made history, but changed it, giving a new understanding of the role of women in Roman society. W… OL5956755W