Bøger om London

Tief in der Geschichte verwurzelt und doch unentwegt innovativ - London ist eine Stadt spannender Kontraste. Das Buch zeigt Fotografien aus Archiven aller Art , die einen visuellen Stadtplan ergeben - historisch und aktuell. Bilder der vielfältigen Bevölkerung, Straßen und Plätzen werden durch kulturelle Querverweise und informative Essays ergänzt.

Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive, updated guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.

Few, if any, cities have a literary history as rich as that of London. Writers have written about it; and lived, loved, stayed and died there.In this guide, there are 111 stories to be revealed. Among them are the lives of writers and their characters, and the plots and venue. Where can you see the first printed book in the western world, or visit the library with no books? Where did two poets marry secretly and then flee to Italy; and what happened when Sigmund Freud met Salvador Dali?

'Utterly compelling' Heidi Swain'Evocatively written, poignant and compulsive' Emma Curtis'Brilliant, twisty' Sara SheridanThree women. A long-buried secret. One voice will free them all...London, 1915: Amid the wartime chaos, Katerina is hailed as a beacon of hope for her bakery, which offers divination alongside sweet treats. But the dark truth she's hiding could cost her everything.Germany, 1918: Miriam secretly vows to help a mute British soldier in the prisoner-of-war camp she's stationed at. Soon she must make an impossible choice: will she save the one she loves, or herself?Cornwall, Present Day: Edie is astonished to discover a mysterious box hidden in the wall of her newly renovated cottage. As Edie starts to investigate, she uncovers a secret that has lain hidden for over a century...Sweeping through the cobbled streets of war-time London, a German WWI camp, and the sea-swept cliffs of Cornwall, The Story Collector is a thrilling, richly woven story about three women, bound by a long-held secret.-----PRAISE FOR IRIS COSTELLO'A rich and tender story' Ruth Hogan, The Keeper of Lost Things'The perfect winter read' Amanda Prowse, To Love and Be Loved'Spellbinding, addictive, and beautifully written' Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting'Richly atmospheric, evocative and moving' Abbie Greaves, The Ends of the Earth'Makes for a spellbinding read' Rhiannon Ward, The Shadowing'Beautifully written with a story that draws you in' Jane Corry, I Died on a Tuesday

A survey in superb photographs of the branch lines and by-ways across the Southern Region in the 1960s.

A wonderful collection of 180 photographs, some previously unpublished, celebrating the London's Gemini Buses.

A stunning collection of photographs along the banks of the River Thames through London from Hampton Court to the Thames Barrier.

A lavishly illustrated overview of London's buses from the 1990s straight through to the present day.

It's 1990 in London, Tom Hargreaves is a tabloid journalist who begins to probe long-held secrets of an Irish family implicated in a shocking crime when he stumbles across dead child on a London estate. Will the generations of secrets stay hidden or will the tabloids unearth everything?

ET AFLYST BRYLLUPDa dagen for Annies bryllup langt om længe oprinder, sker det sidste, hun havde regnet med: Hun bliver brændt af i kirken. Hun var sikker på, at han var drømmemanden … Hvordan kunne hun tage så grueligt fejl?ET UVENTET MØDEDa Annie møder sin gamle ven Patrick, bliver hun mindet om, hvem hun var engang. Og hun lover nu sig selv, at hun vil sige ja til alle nye muligheder, der opstår.EN BILLET TIL BRYLLUPSREJSEN TILOVERSKan en spontan ferie med Patrick hele Annies hjerte? Det finder hun snart ud af, for hun er på vej på bryllupsrejse med en mand, der ikke er hendes ægtemand.Pressen skriver:“Præcis den bog vi alle har brug for lige nu.”— Beth O’Leary“En stor fornøjelse! Romantik, afslapning og næsten-bryllupsrejseinspiration i bogform.”— Emily Henry“Jeg kan ikke huske sidste gang, en bog fik mig til at glemme min telefon. Ren virkelighedsflugt!”— Stacey Halls“Lykketræffet er Laura Jane Williams’ bedste bog til dato.”— Beth O’Leary“Laura Jane Williams har en særlig evne til at få dig til at både grine og græde.”— Lucy Vine

Adelaide Hills, 1959: På en brændende varm dag støder Percy på nabofamilien Turner, da han er ude at ride. Ved første øjekast ser det ud til, at de ligger og hviler sig i skyggen efter en picnic, men ved nærmere eftersyn indser han, at der er noget helt galt, og pludselig er Percy og lokalsamfundet involveret i en yderst vanskelig politiefterforskning.London, 2018: Jess har netop mistet sit job som journalist, da et telefonopkald tvinger hende tilbage til Sydney. Hendes elskede bedstemor, Nora, som hun er vokset op hos, ligger på hospitalet efter en alvorlig faldulykke. I Noras hjem finder Jess en bog, der beskriver politiets arbejde med en berygtet kriminalsag fra 1959. Efter at have skimmet bogen kan hun ikke lade være med at spekulere på, om der er en forbindelse mellem hendes egen familie og den uhyggelige sag fra fortiden …"Rejsen hjem" er en storslået familiehistorie, der spænder over generationer og kontinenter og handler om hemmeligheder, og hvor langt vi er villige til at gå for at beskytte dem, vi elsker.Pressen skriver: ”Et uhyggeligt og stemningsfuldt drama om en velhavende families mystiske død i Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Dette er Mortons hidtil bedste roman.”– Publishers Weekly”Jeg var fuldstændig bjergtaget.”– Goodreads”Wow! Sikke en fascinerende fortælling.”– Goodreads”Mortons nye bog skuffer ikke. Den måde, hun væver alle lag af historien sammen på, er helt fantastisk.”– Goodreads”Rejsen hjem er fyldt med overbevisende historiefortælling, relaterbare karakterer og velskrevet, stemningsfuld prosa.”– Goodreads

In August 1864 a ship called 'Voyager' leaves from London port to New York with twenty six passengers aboard. This voyage starts with a hope for a new beginning for many but soon turns into a nightmare when the abhorrent events of the ship start to occur - caused by an enemy who leaves no trails behind. At the end the question is not just who is behind these brutal acts but how to defeat them before other lives may be lost.

The Northern line is the most complex of the deep level tube lines, both in its history and operation. Moving through the last 130 years, this book focuses on some of the more unusual aspects of the story. In particular, the uncompleted wartime extensions, other proposed extensions, the express services that once operated on the line and the deep level shelters built in World War Two and intended for an express tube after the war. The Northern City Line is also be included, as well as the closed stations at locations such as South Kentish Town and City Road. Rolling stock and depots get a mention, along with some of the stations along the line. Future proposals, including separating the line into two and a possible extension to Clapham Junction are also covered. With over 120 images, this book provides brief history of the Northern line, from the first deep level tube line opened in 1890 to the recent extension to Battersea Power Station.

The 1980s saw the English Electric Class 50s become synonymous with operations out of two London terminus stations, Paddington and Waterloo. The famous Brunel terminus saw commuter services along the Thames Valley corridor to Oxford and Newbury as well as InterCity trains to Bristol and the West Country. Meanwhile, Waterloo was the origin of services over the former South Western route to Salisbury and Exeter. This book takes a pictorial look at the operation of the mighty Hoovers' on both routes with a particular focus on the London end during the type's final years with Network SouthEast. Some time is also spent at Old Oak Common depot, where many of the class were based for maintenance for many years and some ultimately met their end.

Darcy havde det perfekte liv: Hun skulle giftes, og hendes bedste veninde var der til at dele alle livets fantastiske stunder med hende. Folk omkring hende syntes, at hun var det smukkeste og mest vidunderlige, der kunne gå på to ben.Men bedsteveninden stjal den forlovede, og for første gang i sit liv står Darcy nu mutters alene. Og så er hun tilmed gravid. Darcy flygter til London for at genfinde sig selv. Men måske er det på tide at lægge stilen om og finde ud af, hvad der virkelig betyder noget her i livet.I tykt og tyndt er opfølgeren til Emily Giffins succesfulde debutroman, Min bedste venindes forlovede, som er blevet filmatiseret som Skal, skal ikke med Kate Hudson og Ginnifer Goodwin i hovedrollerne. Romanen kan også læses som en selvstændig historie.

"Vintage Stoppard in itsintelligence and wit." -VarietyIt is1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be deadat last-yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confronting his younger selffrom the vantage of death, Housman thinks back to the man he loved, who couldnot return his feelings, and considers the Oxford of his youth, suffused withthe flamboyant influence of the Wildean Aesthetic movement and the restrictionsof High Victorian morality. Winner of the Evening Standard's Best PlayAward, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination as if adream, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and the passion displacedinto poetry.

Cleopatra Lewis har ingen intentioner om at gifte sig, så hun besøger et kostumevarehus for at bestille en garderobe af lidet flatterende kjoler, for at holde alle potentielle bejlere på afstand og ender med at købe hele virksomheden. Samtidig besøger den magtfulde og karismatiske Jacob Astor Addison London, på udkig efter forretninger. Da han opdager, at en ung rigmandsdatter har købt Quimb’s Costume Emporium lige for næsen af ham, bliver han rasende og tilbyder at designe Cleos grimme garderobe, mens hun designer hans.Det er ikke før, at Cleos navn er på alles læber i selskabslivet, at Jake opdager, at hun har stjålet hans hårdt bevogtede hjerte. Men i modsætning til adelsmændene for hendes fødder, hører han ikke hjemme i hendes raffinerede og kultiverede verden. Fanget mellem ære og begær, vil Jake gøre alt for at være sammen med den kvinde, han elsker – hvis hun vil have ham!

The proposals in London of the Future aim to predict and prescribe how the metropolis might be governed, organized, and designed in years to come and to provoke debate among planners, architects, and developers not only in London but in all major cities throughout the world.Over the course of eighteen essays, experts in various fields - urbanism, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, futurology, journalism, and more - examine possibilities for reimagining and improving many aspects of the city. These writers consider changes both radical and minor that could shape London into a more resilient city and a fairer, healthier place to live. The architectural commentator Peter Murray provides an engaging introduction. Discussing some of the more interesting and, in some cases, eccentric proposals of the earlier book, he paves the way for an entirely new and up-to-date collection of ideas for the twenty-first century and beyond.The architectural critic and consultant Hugh Pearman ponders the dangers and uses of prediction while proposing that London be improved and made more liveable, rather than expanded and developed. The architect Carolyn Steel continues the focus on making the city a more pleasant place to live by discussing the future of its food supplies, considering the place of farming within the city's boundaries to spearhead urban renewal in a newly environmental age. The engineer Roma Agrawal advocates increasing cross-disciplinary understanding in the building and engineering world so that tomorrow's engineers can be curious without boundaries. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of the architectural practice Grafton interrogate the meaning of permanence, and what London's inhabitants will need from their buildings.Urbanist Kat Hanna discusses the future of two of London's identities: the Central Business District and the Financial Services Hub.Mark Brearley, an architect and proprietor of a long-established London manufacturer, writes on the subject of the local high street and how the city is strengthened by these social, commercial hubs. Gillian Darley, a writer and historian, looks at the future of heritage and how the city's past can be conserved and contribute towards its future. Sarah Ichioka is an environmental and social consultant, and her approach focuses on the climate emergency and natural solutions to make the city more resilient. The architect Indy Johar puts forward radical ideas about the shift that is required of all London's inhabitants if the city is to transform itself for the future. Smith Mordak, an architect and engineer with Buro Happold, advocates for large infrastructural changes for sustainability. The cultural practitioner and writer Yasmin Jones-Henry, meanwhile, advocates for the value of cultural activities, powered by diversity.The theatre director Jude Kelly calls for London's broadly inclusive cultural past to be put at the center of future plans and imagines a place for AI in that future. Dame Baroness Lawrence, a campaigner who has promoted reforms in the police service, uses housing, education, policing, and racial equality to put forward her vision for a more equitable London. The journalist Anna Minton sets the extraordinarily high values of property in certain areas of the city against a crisis of social housing and the poor quality of low-income housing and asks how the problem of housing inequality can be solved.The architect Claire Bennie also examines how housing can be made fairer and available to more people. The futurologist Mark Stevenson imagines a commercial, building-focused solution to the problem of climate change.The journalist Tony Travers imagines London's future in relation to its survival of past crises. Neal Shashore, an architectural historian, focuses on the approach to educating future designers of the capital, to champion inclusivity and focus on the needs of people and communities.

A reflection on family roots in England, Germany and the first years of growing up in southern Africa during the troubled 1970s' in Rhodesia. Followed by a challenging new beginning in Europe, learning to overcome insecurity and finding strength and identity with subculture music and underground scenes. I experienced Skinhead life in the mid-late 1980s, started creating own fanzines, explored friendships and failures, fought on the streets and danced through the nights at countless concerts of Psychobilly, Heavy Metal, New Wave, Skinhead, Punk and Ska acts. 'Give me Some Kick!' is a passionate mirroring of a restless past...

Unge Jerry Challoner tilbyder en ung, overlæsset kvinde et lift hjem, men efter at have sat hende af ved døren, hører han skud fra huset. En velhavende og velbegavet mand er myrdet under mystiske omstændigheder. Challoners far, en aldrende og erfaren detektiv fra Scotland Yard, borer i sagen, men støder ustandseligt mod en mur af hemmelighedskræmmeri.Alle har et eller andet at skjule, men efterhånden løftes så meget af sløret, at han kan danne sig en teori. Challoner er i mellemtiden blevet forelsket i kvinden og prøver derfor at overtale sin far til at opgive sagen, da han er alvorligt bange for, at hun er involveret. Men gamle Challoner opgiver ikke så let ..."Margery Allingham skiller sig ud som et strålende lys."– Agatha ChristieMargery Allingham (1904-1966), engelsk kriminalforfatter og en af De Fire Store fra krimigenrens Golden Age. De Fire Store bestod af Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh og Margery Allingham. Sammen med bl.a. Ronald Knox og G.K. Chesterton var de medlemmer af den kendte sammenslutning af britiske krimiforfattere: The Detection Club. Allingham er mest kendt for sin serie med gentlemandetektiven AlbertCampion.

Det ældre ægtepar i bussen må have set morderen. Er det derfor, de nu er sporløst forsvundet?En ung, selvsikker morder planlægger sine forbrydelser med køligt overblik, stor omhu og uhyggelig koldblodighed – og han sørger for, at de bliver ført ud i livet.Morderen føler sig ganske overbevist om, at han er urørlig, lige indtil Albert Campion kommer på sporet af ham. Kan Campion binde de løse ender sammen og løse mysteriet? Vil hans snuhed og kløgt i sidste ende vinde over morderens?"Margery Allingham skiller sig ud som et strålende lys."– Agatha ChristieMargery Allingham (1904-1966), engelsk kriminalforfatter og en af De Fire Store fra krimigenrens Golden Age. De Fire Store bestod af Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Ngoia Marsh og Margery Allingham. Sammen med bl.a. Ronald Knox og G.K. Chesterton var de medlemmer af den kendte sammenslutning af britiske krimiforfattere: The Detection Club. Allingham er mest kendt for sin serie med gentlemandetektiven AlbertCampion.

En gammel, agtværdig forlæggervirksomhed bliver ramt af en katastrofe, da en af medejerne bliver fundet død af kulilteforgiftning i firmaets boksrum i kælderen. Er det et ulykkestilfælde, som den ukronede konge i firmaet hævder, eller er han blevet myrdet, som politiet mener? Et værdifuldt manuskript, som aldrig er udgivet på grund af det lidt for dristige erotiske indhold, opbevares i boksrummet, hvor den afdøde blev fundet.En ung ansat, som plejer omgang med den afdødes forsømte hustru, bliver arresteret og anklaget for at have planlagt og udført mordet. Han har intet alibi, og motivet ligger lige for.Albert Campion tilkaldes for at hjælpe familien gennem katastrofen, men familien rummer hemmeligheder, som nok tåler dagens lys, men gør det vanskeligt for den unge detektiv at gennemskue, hvordan døden er indtrådt. En af forlagets ejere, Tom Barnabas, forlod en morgen for tyve år siden sit hus, og pludselig var han forsvundet op i den blå luft.