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Originally opened in 2014, the 354-key hotel is designed to recall a 1920s transatlantic cruise liner, with gilt portholes in ...
This week’s offerings include a poetry collection and a remarkably cleareyed memoir by a survivor of sexual abuse, along with ...
Since at least 2013, a rumor has circulated online that illegal gambling dens in 18th-century England hired people to swallow ...
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Jason Mann wins award at London Book Fair
A TAUNTON-BORN author has won a top award at the London Book Fair. Jason Mann’s Cornish mystery The Echoing Shore was announced as the 2025 winner of the Selfies Adult Fiction Award in front of an ...
The atmosphere Rice renders as she takes the reader from 18th-century Louisiana to 19th ... London by a British professor, are as political as they are personal, and the consequences of the book ...
It’s officially spring, and celebrate with a whole host of things to see, do and experience in London this month ... and his significant role in 19th-century Mexican art, and the cocktails ...
They deserve to feature alongside plague, war and great fires in London’s history books. Another as-yet ... European temperatures into the mid-19th century. London’s Frost Fairs, held on ...
As the list below shows, Daunt Books in London earns the No.1 spot with a ... is one of the oldest in the country. The mid-19th-century library is most famous for its La Trobe Reading Room ...
So many exciting fantasy books have already been released in 2025, and there are so many more to come, including these 10 ...
We asked Londonist readers a simple question: What's the best novel set (or partly set) in London ... century detective). Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke: Set in the early 19th ...
Book tickets here. Friday Night Dinner’s Tamsin Greig will continue her role in the Deep Blue Sea as it comes to London. Picture ... for George Bernard Shaw’s 19th century classic. The pair will play ...