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This is London
London is a global city. More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is transforming London, for better and for worse. Ben Judah turns his reporter's eye on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of the city's immigrants - from the richest to the poorest - to discover the complex and varied individuals who are making London what it is today.
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city of London over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honor. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists.
Scenes of London Life
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the colorful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the pawnshop and the penitentiary, he captured the grime and the glory of the English capital with singular brilliance. Orphans and beggars, lord mayors and murderers, actors, criminals, cab drivers and prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from Sketches by Boz. Chosen and introduced by the playwright J. B. Priestley, these thirteen marvelous sketches are accompanied by George Cruikshankâs evocative illustrations.
This is London
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Ruby Red Shoes (Ruby Red Shoes, #1)
'The story of ravishing rabbit Ruby is so full of whimsy and wonder that children and adults will happily abide. The pictures are dreamy and the sense of humour delightful.' -- WEEKEND WEST Ruby Red Shoes lives in a colourful caravan with her grandmother. Ruby is gentle and kind and cares for all living things, including plants and trees, animals and people. Ruby is also particularly fond of strawberry jam and peppermint tea. From author-illustrator Kate Knapp comes this beautifully illustrated and charming picture book about Ruby, a very aware hare. ACCLAIM FOR THE RUBY RED SHOES SERIES Ruby Red Shoes Shortlisted - 2013 Children's Book Council of Australia Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustrations Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris Shortlisted - 2014 Australian Book Industry Award for Book of the Year for Younger Children Shortlisted - 2014 Inaugural Readings Children's Book Prize
Jennings Again!
Linbury goes green, and Jennings and Darbishire offer to do their bit distributing leaflets. Darbishire's shoelace refuses to stay tied and Jennings removes the rubber band holding the leaflets. All seems fine until a gust of wind hurls them over Marina Gardens. It's poor Mr Wilkins who's going to get the blame. 'Addle-pated eyewash!'
Pulling Myself Together
Film & Television.
Different Drummer
Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling. However, MacMillan was tormented by an acute sense of being an outsider, and often at odds with the institutions in which he worked. A real-life Billy Elliot from a Scottish working class family, MacMillan demonstrated a prodigious talent for dancing from an early age. Following the premature death of his mother, the young MacMillan sought an escape, and despite his father's disapproval, secured a place at Sadler's Wells. Paradoxically he found himself crippled by stage-fright during the height of his professional career, leaving him with only one option - choreog...
Slow Burn City
A provocative, brilliant and humane new book from 'one of our most intelligent architecture critics' (Daily Telegraph).London has become the global city above all others. Money from all over the world flows through it; its land and homes are tradable commodities; it is a nexus for the world's migrant populations, rich and poor. Versions of what is happening in London are happening elsewhere, but London has become the best place to understand the way the world's cities are changing.Some of the transformations London has undergone were creative, others were destructive; this is not new. London has always been a city of trade, exploitation and opportunity. But London has an equal history of pub...
