My East End

Author: Gilda O'Neill
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141929383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529

Book Description
'Every page is a delight. Every chapter made vivid by a writer who has poured heart and soul into her book' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail The East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub singalongs, dog racing, jellied eels . . . It is a place at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. Gilda O'Neill, an East Ender herself, shows there is more to this fascinating area than a collection of clichéd images. Using oral history and more traditional sources, she builds up a powerful image of this community - bringing to us, with wit and honesty, the real story of London's East End WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MY EAST END: 'A true and detailed account of a community that has been sadly lost' Amazon Reader Review 'Excellent reading for anyone interested in the early life of London, one can't help being mesmerised by the hardships they endured!' Amazon Reader Review 'An extremely interesting and well-researched book' Amazon Reader Review

The East End

Author: Jason Allen
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488036586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
"Every page is filled with wise insights about social class and the human heart." —Bonnie Jo Campbell, National Book Award finalist Corey Halpern, a local high schooler, grew up working class in the Hamptons and is desperate to leave his home-town and start anew somewhere else. The summer before college, he finds escapism in sneaking into neighboring mansions and pocketing small items. One night just before Memorial Day weekend, he breaks into the wrong home at the wrong time: the Sheffield estate, where he and his mother, Gina, work. Under the cover of darkness, Leo Sheffield, patriarch and billionaire CEO, arrives unexpectedly with a companion. After a shocking poolside accident, Leo is desperate to cover up what happened before his family and friends arrive for the holiday weekend. Unfortunately for him, Corey saw everything, as did other eyes in the shadows. Secrecy, obsession and desperation dictate each character's path in this spectacular debut. With an ending as explosive as the Memorial Day fireworks on the island, The East End is an unforgettable debut about class, family secrets, and the desire to belong.

My East End

Author: Anita Dobson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

London's East End

Author: Steve Lewis
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752454863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A history of London's East End

Murder in the East End

Author: Jennifer Ashley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593099389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
A new upstairs, downstairs Victorian murder mystery in the Kat Holloway series from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in Kew Gardens. When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing and one of their nurses has been murdered, she can't turn away. She enlists the help of her charming and enigmatic confidant Daniel McAdam, who has ties to Scotland Yard, and Errol Fielding, a disreputable man from Daniel’s troubled past, to bring the killer to justice. Their investigation takes them from the grandeur of Mayfair to the slums of the East End, during which Kat learns more about Daniel and his circumstances than she ever could have imagined.

London's East End

Author: Jane Cox
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781841881010
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Bounded on either side by the river Lea and the City walls, London's East End has witnessed a wide variety of people and ways of life. Bountiful photos, drawings, maps, engravings, and an authoritative text weave a rich historical tapestry of the riversides where pirates once walked; the monasteries and slums east of the tower; and Shoreditch, where audiences cheered Shakespeare's plays. Over five centuries worth of anecdotes, folk tales, diary excerpts, court cases, newspapers, and letters capture this colorful neighborhood.

Triple Moon

Author: Melissa de la Cruz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698188284
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Blue Bloods and Witches of East End After they cause a terrible accident at their old high school, twin witches Mardi and Molly Overbrook are sent to live with their “Aunt” Ingrid Beauchamp in North Hampton, on Long Island’s mist-shrouded East End. Because the twins cannot control their powers, their father begs Ingrid to tame them over the summer, before the White Council exiles the girls to Limbo. Trouble continues to bubble and boil when the girls meet the younger Gardiner boys, who are just as handsome and sexy as their older kin. But all is not as it seems. As Ingrid helps the girls learn to control their magical impulses, Mardi and Molly have just this summer to figure out how to grow up, how to love, and how to be a family.

Spitalfields Life

Author: Gentle Author
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781444703955
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London... Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London.

Studios by the Sea

Author: Bob Colacello
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810904484
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A Gossipy, Anecdotal Book by Bob Colacello with luscious photography by Jonathan Becker of the homes & studios of forty prominent artists living in the Hamptons: from Julian Schnabel's ten-bedroom Stanford White spread to Ross Bleeckner's Sagaponack saltbox (formerly Truman Capote's), & including the personal places of Chuck Close, April Gornik, David Salle, John Chamberlain & others.

An East End Farewell

Author: Yvette Venables
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471136973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This is the memoir of an East End undertaker, Stan Cribb, who began his apprenticeship aged just fourteen, burying the victims of London's Blitz. During the last century, East End households had a special relationship with their local undertakers due to the large families and high mortality rates. Since he can remember, Stan Harris (more commonly known as Stan Cribb), spent his weekends captivated by the goings-on at his grandparents' funeral home. At fourteen, and much to the reluctance of his father, he dons his first suit and joins the family business as an apprentice to his quick-tempered uncle. Entering the profession at a time when an undertaker's role exposed them to the brutal realities of World War II, Stan spends his teenage years recovering dead bodies in the dark and standing guard over funeral carriages during air raids. After the war, with unfailing good humour, Stan takes us on a journey through his National Service, marriage, and unpredictable life as an East End undertaker.