Odysseus Abroad
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It's 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been a student in London for two years, practicing at...
Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body
Sharon Olds, Malika Booker and Warsan Shire
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The latest volume in Penguin Modern Poets series - moving and unflinchingly honest poems from three...
Block 46
Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski
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Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found...
BookwormLea (3034 KP) rated The Exorcist in Phoenix Theatre (London, United Kingdom) in Shows
Jul 16, 2020
What I also loved was how clever the stage setting was! It was all one set. Nothing moved or changed. It looked like a dollhouse and the only thing they did was switch the light on the room they were in. So clever and very effective!!! If you're ever in London, go see it!!!!
Ezra Koenig recommended Something Else by The Kinks in Music (curated)
BookInspector (124 KP) rated We Met in December in Books
Sep 24, 2020
The events of one year, were described in this novel. It all starts in December, and I absolutely loved the way Rose Curtis described the atmosphere. She has a great eye for the picturesque views, and she really made me love London even more.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated My Son, the Vampire (1952) in Movies
Oct 21, 2020
The plot: Irish washerwoman Old Mother Riley (Arthur Lucan) foils a would-be vampire (Bela Lugosi) and his misguided robot.
This was the final film of the Old Mother Riley film series, and did not feature Lucan's ex-wife and business partner Kitty McShane, whom he had divorced in 1951.
In 1963, a recut American version called My Son, the Vampire was released, featuring an introductory segment with a song by American comedian Allan Sherman.
On the suggestion of producer Richard Gordon, Bela Lugosi had travelled to the UK to appear in a stage play of Dracula, which failed. He needed money to return to the US. Gordon persuaded fellow producer George Minter to use Lugosi in a movie in London.
Lugosi was paid $5,000 for his role. The plot was taken from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Its a funny horror comedy.
Fathers: A Novel
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In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London....
Biography memoir
Queer City
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In Queer City Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way – through the history and...
LGBTQ Essays Social issues
Shadow of Night
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It began with A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful...