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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom.

New Releases Tagged "London"

A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams

I Hear A New World (The Long London Quintet, #2)

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

When the Wolves Are Silent (Sebastian St. Cyr, #21)

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Books Based in London

360 books — 108 voters

London fiction

264 books — 90 voters

From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. Elliott

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

True Crime-Read

132 books — 29 voters

Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. Elliott

GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS by Scott L. Nelson

My Ailing Champion by Demetrius Koubourlis

Memoirs I've Loved Too

357 books — 97 voters

Is He Ever Going to Leave His Wife? by Martess Dowling

Famous Friends, Family or people I worked for/with

226 books — 32 voters

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

World War II England

482 books — 198 voters

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“ I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

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“ The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight ...more ”
― Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

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