London Belongs to Me
9 best books like London Belongs to Me (Norman Collins): Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Girl, Woman, Other, Every Man Dies Alone, The Slaves of Solitude, The Concept of Mind, The Country Girls Trilogy, The Good Companions, The Village, The Benefit of Hindsight
| Author | Patrick Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0099479168 |
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky are the streets of London… And there people meet and part… And there they fall in love.
For he was in that mood when he loved all human creatures. He loved Ella because she was a good woman, and he loved the other because she was a bad woman. It was a good world.
In...
| Author | Bernardine Evaristo |
| ISBN | 0241364906 |
Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019
Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...
| Author | Hans Fallada |
| ISBN | 1933633638 |
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin,...
| Author | Patrick Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1590172205 |
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter.
Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated...
| Author | Gilbert Ryle |
| ISBN | 0226732967 |
This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the...
The Country Girls Trilogy
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0452263948 |
“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.”
—Newsday
From the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A Memoir
Kate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls...
Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July 1929, and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. It was his third novel and it is certainly...
| Author | Marghanita Laski |
| ISBN | 1903155428 |
'If anyone asked me to describe life in post-war Britain, ' commented Sarah Crompton in the Daily Telegraph, 'I would suggest they read The Village, a 1952 story of lovers divided by class that tells you more about the subtle gradations of life in the Home Counties and the cataclysmic changes wrought...
| Author | Susan Hill |
| ISBN | 1784742791 |
In this, the tenth Simon Serrailler crime novel, Simon must engage with his own demons as Lafferton struggles to cope with a series of crimes that threaten the sanctity of hearth and home.
On the face of it DC Simon Serrailler has had time to recuperate after the violent incident that cost him...
