Give them all my love

Gillian Tindall

Hutchinson

This is an historical study of Bombay, the chief city of Western India, which focuses on the architecture and on the British roots of the metropolis, the people who built and ran the city as well as the importance of trade.

City Of Gold: The Biography Of Bombay (Travel Library)

Travel

Asia

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Intruder

Literature & Fiction

Pavanne

Follows the lives and friendship of two strong-willed, independent women in London in the 1920s--the beautiful and volatile novelist, Joanna, and the plain and sensible physician, Mary

Looking Forward

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Literary

Hodder

The journey of Martin Nadaud: a life and turbulent times

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Chatto&Windus

The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in reality and imagination

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

The Journey of Martin Nadaud: A Life and Turbulent Times

An exceptional work of miniaturist history, The Journey of Martin Nadaud reconstructs the experiences of an ordinary man who rose to meet the challenges posed by extraordinary times. Through the life of a little known French political figure, Gillian Tindall recreates the world of France's master stone masons-builders of the Pantheon and the Louvre-and brings to life the turbulent atmospheres of Paris and London during the19th century. Born into a poor family in the rocky heart of France, tramping hundreds of miles to Paris to find work at age 14, Martin Nadaud became a stone mason, a revolutionary, and a Member of Parliament. After the failure of the 1848 Revolution, he was forced into long and lonely exile in England. Nadaud found work on the building sites of Victorian London and eventually, under an assumed name, became a schoolmaster in Wimbeldon. He made his final triumphant return to his homeland in 1870, as France sat poised on the brink of humiliation, bloodshed, and rebirth. Publicly, his was a life finally crowned with success. But on a private level Nadaud suffered griefs and losses would leave lasting marks on the man. Examining family letters and personal papers that have lain unread for the last hundred years, Gillian Tindall has constructed a moving and compelling portrait of a working man and his colorful times.

The Journey of Martin Nadaud

Pimlico

Beginning as a scattering of cottages along a pre-Roman pack-horse track going northwards, developing by degrees into a medieval parish and staging-post for travellers, then into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats, into an eighteenth-century resort of pleasure gardens, into a select residential suburb, and finally into a thickly-populated working-class district, Kentish Town has passed through every possible visual and social permutation, and is still developing and changing today. Far more than just a meticulously researched local history, The Fields Beneath illustrates the classic historical sequence of the village gradually being absorbed by the metropolis.

The Fields Beneath

History

Europe

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Give Them All My Love (Bello)

Bello

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