Download or read book Today South London Tomorrow South London written by Andrew Grumbridge and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South London-based blog, Deserter, is an alt guide to living and loafing in the wonky wonderland south of the river. Its authors, under their noms de plume Dulwich Raider and Dirty South, record off-beat days out and urban adventures featuring pubs, cemeteries, galleries, hospitals and pubs again, often in the company of their volatile dealer, Half-life, and the much nicer Roxy. Part guide, part travelogue, this book is a collection of these tales with the addition of lots of new material that their publisher absolutely insisted upon. South London, that maligned wasteland where cabbies once feared to drive, can no longer be ignored. The South is risen!
Download or read book South London written by Walter Besant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "South London" by Walter Besant is a comprehensive and illuminating journey that takes readers on a captivating exploration of the rich tapestry of history, culture, and landmarks that define South London. With meticulous research and a genuine passion for the subject, Besant's narrative unfolds as an invaluable guide for readers eager to uncover the hidden gems and untold stories of this remarkable region. Besant's profound insights provide readers with a deep understanding of South London's historical significance, its evolving landscape, and the unique charm that sets it apart from other locales. As readers traverse the pages of this book, they are invited to embark on a virtual tour, where every street, building, and community comes to life with vivid descriptions and historical anecdotes. "South London" is not merely a book; it is a gateway to the past, a celebration of the present, and an invitation to explore the region's rich heritage. It serves as a testament to the enduring allure of South London and its capacity to capture the hearts and imaginations of all who venture within its borders. For those seeking to delve into the soul of a diverse and vibrant part of the world, Walter Besant's work is an indispensable resource that both informs and inspires, ensuring that the legacy of South London endures for generations to come.
Download or read book Murder Houses of South London written by Jan Bondeson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which of South London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own. South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime, and many of its murder houses still stand.
Download or read book London and the South East written by David Szalay and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before published in the United States, the debut novel by the wildly talented author of Booker Prize Finalist All That Man Is “That clattering noise you hear is the sound of critics and readers racing to find [David Szalay’s] earlier books, an activity worth the effort,” wrote Dwight Garner in his New York Times review of Szalay’s All That Man Is. And now American readers finally have their chance with his debut novel, London and the South-East. Paul Rainey, the hapless antihero at the center of this “compulsively readable” (Independent on Sunday) story works, miserably, in ad sales. He sells space in magazines that hardly exist, and through a fog of booze and drugs dimly perceives that he is dissatisfied with his life—professionally, sexually, recreationally, the whole nine yards. If only there were something he could do about it—and “something” seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. But when that offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul’s own sales patter, his life is transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible. London and the South-East, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, is both a gloriously told shaggy-dog story about the compromising inanities of office life and consumer culture, and the perfect introduction to one of the best writers at work today.
Download or read book Mayhem in South London written by Ramesh Chunilal and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His first murder was an accident. A mistake derived from anger. But the others were so well planned that even the authorities at Scotland yard could not find any evidence to convict him. "I'm sorry you feel that way, doctor. Please accept my apologies....but may I reiterate that we are trained in our discipline as much as you are trained in yours. You see, we're forced to see the world differently from everybody else. In any event, we evaluate and calculate in very much the same way an accountant does. The only difference is that, if he makes an error in his calculation, without due justification, he still considers it a mistake, and we call it fraud."
Download or read book South African London written by Andrea Thorpe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.
Download or read book London 2 written by Bridget Cherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 2: South is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve southern boroughs. Its riverside buildings range from the royal splendours of Hampton Court and Greenwich and the Georgian delights of Richmond, to the monuments of Victorian commerce in Lambeth and Southwark. But the book also charts lesser known suburbs, from former villages such as Clapham to still rural, Edwardian Chislehurst, as well as the results of twentieth-century planners' dreams from Roehampton to Thamesmead. Full accounts are given of London landmarks as diverse as Southwark Cathedral, Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery and the arts complex of the South Bank. The outer boroughs include diverse former country houses - Edward IV's Eltham Palace, the Jacobean Charlton House, and the Palladian Marble Hill. The rich Victorian churches and school buildings are covered in detail, as are the exceptional structures of Kew Gardens.
Download or read book Wild Guide written by Daniel Start and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of the 'Wild Swimming' titles, the adventure continues. In this book, Daniel Start takes readers to 500 amazing wild locations with 30 weekend itineraries.
Download or read book London s South Bank in 50 Buildings written by Louis Berk and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich history London’s South Bank in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.
Download or read book The Last Years of London s RFs and RTs South of the Thames written by Mike Rhodes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning photographs documenting the final era of these iconic London buses focusing on the South of the Thames.
Download or read book Lost Lanes written by Jack Thurston and published by Lost Lanes. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Thurston, presenter of the 'Bike Show', takes you on a freewheeling tour of the lost lanes and forgotten byways of southern England.
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Download or read book All That Man Is written by David Szalay and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the twenty-first-century man. Dark and disturbing, but also often wickedly and uproariously comic, All That Man Is is notable for the acute psychological penetration Szalay brings to bear on his characters, from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Steadily and mercilessly, as this brilliantly conceived book progresses, the protagonist at the center of each chapter is older than the last one, it gets colder out, and All That Man Is gathers exquisite power. Szalay is a writer of supreme gifts--a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance, and devastating pathos.
Download or read book South London written by Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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