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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzy Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Soon his plans for a magnificent terrace built above the 200ft drop...
2) Psycho too
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world; Psycho Too brings together a second helping of their very best words and pictures from Psychogeography', the columns they contributed to the Independent for half a decade. The introduction, Journey Through Britain' is a new extended essay by Self, accompanied by Steadman's...
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s, to going out to work as a postman humming 'Watching the Detectives' by Elvis Costello in 1977, Alan Johnson's life has always had a musical soundtrack. In fact music hasn't just accompanied his life, it's been an integral part of it. In the bestselling and award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'debate' which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
There were four courtyards and a conglomeration of passages. Situated at one end of each of these courtyards was a row of toilets, and we watched as queues formed outside each of them. We were soon to become accustomed to this distressing necessity. It would be almost impossible to describe every aspect of this dirty lane, but this much can be said - even in those days of housing shortages and woeful sanitary facilities, the conditions that prevailed...
6) Shuggie Bain
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
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