![]() ![]() From Fleming's legendary Blades Club in Mayfair, that made appearances in both Moonraker and Goldfinger, to Waugh's bohemian Shepheard's Hotel from Vile Bodies, that was based on the celebrated Cavendish Hotel, to the haunts of Sherlock Holmes and Bertie Wooster, Fictional London will appeal to all lovers of classic fiction set in the great city. Listed geographically, each entry provides a description of the location, its place in literature and its inspiration. ![]() All of London's clubs, pubs, restaurants, houses and streets that have been made famous in the works of the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming, Charles Dickens and Evelyn Waugh are featured in this exhaustively researched volume. Fictional London will explore the capital both from the viewpoint of the many writers who have used it as a stage for their plots and their characters and of the readers whose imagination is fired by the knowledge that they are standing outside the home of David Copperfield on the Strand or Count Dracula's residence in Piccadilly. ![]() London is unrivalled as a source of inspiration for writers from Geoffrey Chaucer to J.K. ![]() The only guide to London's literary landmarks is updated in this new edition. ![]()
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Beginning with the switching on of the first programmable computer in 1946 and closing with the rise of downloadable indie games, this engrossing work manages to touch on every vital facet of the industry, from the formative battles between Atari and Mattel, through the rise of the home computer to the emergence of the Japanese home console empire.īut what Donovan is great at is catching the quiet little moments of videogame history, hidden beneath the broad sweep of technological change. ![]() Replay: The History of Video Games by games journalist Tristan Donovan is a much more up-to-date and thoughtfully written opus. ![]() ![]() This is also the story of the women whom Susan serves, women whose options are increasingly limited. Hers is also a calling that means sleeping on planes and commuting between clinics in different states, and that requires her to wear a bulletproof vest and to carry a. 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Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book(R) from Stan and Jan Berenstain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Navigating a breathless few weeks of nonstop action and emotional turmoil, Ana makes some critical errors in judgment that will impact the couple forever, and Christian must finally confront some profound, painful truths in order to move forward to the life he never believed possible, but which rests within his grasp. ![]() Her continued personal and professional ambivalence is forgotten as she deals with personal tragedy then exacerbated by a chafing desire for some individual freedom and finally overshadowed by a continued threat that hovers over Ana and Christian from an old, malevolent enemy with connections to Grey’s past no one would expect and Christian doesn’t remember. ![]() Uncertain about her own ambitions and identity in the face of Grey’s staggering wealth and heady sexual pull, Ana sets out to stake a claim in the publishing world, helped and hindered by the fact that Christian has bought the company. Fifty Shades Freed starts with their wedding and honeymoon, a fairy-tale journey through Europe that leaves Ana amazed and conflicted. Ana and Christian get married, but continued physical and emotional threats, as well as Christian’s need for control, mitigate their bliss.Īt the end of Fifty Shades Darker, Anastasia Steele agrees to marry her beloved magnate-billionaire boyfriend, Christian Grey. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. (Left Book Club supplementary volume, Part I, with 32 pages of plates, published May 1937 ) 8 March 1937 as a Left Book Club selection and a cloth-bound trade edition ![]() |