Smashbomb

Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion.

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Sep 28, 2017

Eimear McBride, who won the Baileys prize in 2014 for a first novel which had struggled to find a publisher, won Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black prize, for her second, The Lesser Bohemians.

McBride’s The Lesser Bohemians, in which an 18-year-old Irish girl comes to London and falls for an older actor, was described by judges as “an extraordinary rendering of a young woman’s consciousness as she eagerly embarks on a new life in London”.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prizes

Established in 1919, The James Tait Black Prizes are Britain's oldest literary awards. There are two book prizes, one for fiction and one for biography.

Rasputin: The Biography

Douglas Smith

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A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the...

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby

Joe Moshenska

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY and THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR...

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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip

Alexander Masters

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Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder...

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez

Laura Cumming

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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant...

The Sport of Kings

C.E. Morgan

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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction...

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The Bandersnatch (199 KP) rated Haunted London Underground in Books

Nov 7, 2019

I love Haunted London Underground just likes its fellow book Haunted London because it covers a good branch of history and paranormal events over the underground. I recommend this book to everyone who loves history and paranormal and I give this book a rating of 8/10.

I respect the Authors David Brandon and Alan Brooke for their dedication to the research of each underground station and ghost stories tied to them and putting the information in a coherent way of reading it.

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The Collect Short Stories

Jean Rhys | 2021

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"I discovered Jean Rhys thru Jon an anarchist bookseller in London in 2012 who runs a book barge Word On The Water. He approached me with this book of short stories. Written mainly in the late 20's and 30's. Rhys's voice is utterly contemporary. She writes from her own life with an unsparing eye capturing the essence of outsider women left to their own devices, caught up in bad relationships, and loneliness in rented rooms and café's in London and Paris."

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