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The timid and rather lonely Evelyn Tradescant is a recent failure at love who has a passion for natural history. She meets Theo Gormann by accident and is drawn into his net. But Evelyn soon discovers she has a share of power in their relationship, power that she relishes manipulating . . . .
Though the main emphasis of this book is a social history of the Pimlico section of Dublin, it also includes family history of four generations of the author's family who resided in Pimlico. A pedigree chart is included.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Pimlico has changed and developed over the last century.
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A fantastic mystery novel involving a practicing surgeon who is also a master criminal -- and head of an international band of outlaws!
Facsimile reproduction of drawings and sketches by Thackeray with his handwritten captions.
Crammed into Westminster and Pimlico are an abbey, a cathedral, a parliament, palaces, numerous government offices, up-market shops, men's clubs, beautiful parks, statues galore, theatres, the most famous clock in the world and one of the best schools in the country. 150 years ago the list would have included breweries and brothels, for here, in the capital of the world's richest nation, an underclass of starving, wretched people existed within shouting distance of those who governed them. This is an A-Z historical guide to the area.
'Well-written excellent historical fiction' - Historical Novels Review Armistice Day, 1940. The nation remembers the Great War while a new and harrowing conflict rumbles on. The Blitz Detective, John Jago, must set aside his own painful memories to investigate a suspicious death in Pimlico, south-west London. The body of a young man has been discovered in an Anderson shelter, with two white poppies in his pocket. As the investigation progresses, Jago and his assistant, DC Cradock, find themselves knee-deep in Pimlico's shady underworld and connections with Mosley's fascist party. It will take all their skills to uncover the truth behind the young man's brutal death.