London Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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B. Priestley, Jean Rhys, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Maeve Binchy, Doris Lessing, Hanif Kureishi and Shena Mackay. The crossing was given Grade II listed status in 2010 - despite the fact that the original zebra crossing was moved several metres over 30 years ago. The explanation that a mouse was actually responsible for the theft is today commemorated by London’s smallest public sculpture (two mice and a wedge of cheese on the wall of Philpot Lane). Winter weather presents numerous challenges for a public transport system, from snow on the tracks to icy roads and station platforms.

Earlier this year pest controllers in south London discovered a nest of six giant rats – each two feet long and weighing over 25lbs – which were simply too massive for conventional traps to kill. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. Kings and queens also locked away their valuables and jewels at the Tower and even today, the Crown Jewels are protected by a garrison of soldiers.Allegedly, the police cover-up was intended to stop public panic, because there was clear evidence that the suspect had indeed been present at the scene of several ‘suicides’. Newer voices are heard, and by this point in the collection it occurred to me: This compilation succeeds not because it gathers disparate voices, but because it works on the principle that London itself has a voice, and it is the sum of the speakers. His in-depth photo essays explore social issues relating to identity, environment and human transition.

London Stories, edited by Terry White, is an exceptional collection that encapsulates the rich tapestry of the city, showcasing its diversity, vibrancy, and timeless allure. Here, the Ceremony of the Keys and other traditions live on, as do the ghost stories and terrible tales of torture and execution. Bystanders tried valiantly to unearth Cawthorne, but found that he had expired, partly through asphyxiation, but mainly from head-butting himself to death trying to break through the coffin lid. Legend has it that if the six ravens ever leave the Tower of London, the Tower and the kingdom will fall.

However, this was made up for by the inclusion of the story about transporting a frisky emu from the docks to the suburbs! It will stop in its tracks for a Canadian circus, say, or an Australian stand-up comic, or an enthusiastic American evangelist, or any other import with the power to beguile. More people died building Sir Christopher Wren’s Monument to the Great Fire of London than perished in the fire itself, two of them in a scuffle in which one builder accused another of stealing his bread and cheese.

Workers excavating a north London churchyard during construction of the St Pancras International Eurostar terminal in 2003 probably expected to uncover some human remains. And there were outstanding performances by David Wayman, Conrad Plentie, Kyle Turlunch, and Naomi Grossett (Joanna, Mark's lover). This book for the first time makes it possible to learn all one needs to know about the world's great painters and painting. Moving along, the 2oth century is acutely observed by Mollie Painter-Downes, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, all of whom bring the focus, and the wit, to 'razor sharp'.He was also among the very first drivers of motor buses in London, as petrol engines began to replace horse-drawn transport. I really felt like I was being transported through different eras in London's history, simply with short stories that travel through the city's history. With the help of young people from Tower Hamlets and other east London boroughs, 100 East London Stories launched in October 2017. Harry Adès grew up in London next door to – and now lives exactly 36 paces away from – a very fine pub.

Some of the component parts of the sharp-edged vapour that came flying up the Thames at London might be mummy-dust, dry atoms from the Temple at Jerusalem, camels' foot-prints, crocodiles' hatching places, loosened grains of expression from the visages of blunt-nosed sphynxes, waifs and strays from caravans of turbaned merchants, vegetations from jungles, frozen snow from Himalayas. His work reflects a lifelong love of art, influenced by his parents, both artists, and his previous career in graphic and interior design.Laura Knight was one of the most popular British artists of her lifetime, with her success paving the way for greater recognition of women artists. She and the King feasted here in splendour the night before Anne processed in triumph through the City of London to Westminster Abbey. The Tower of London is still home to the Yeomen Warders and their families, the Resident Governor, and a garrison of soldiers. In London Stories, the city’s sprawling historical and literary landscape is served up in a tidy collection of 26 short works that span four centuries.