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London Belongs to Me (Paperback)
Norman Collins; Introduction by Ed Glinert
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Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to
Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve of
the Second World War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes
an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium. It
is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant.
But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work,
drink, fall in love, fight and struggle to get on in life. At the
lodging-house at No.10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up
clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a
retirement gift. The other residents include faded actress Connie;
tinned food-loving Mr Puddy; widowed landlady Mrs Vizzard (whose
head is turned by her new lodger, a self-styled 'Professor of
Spiritualism'); and flashy young mechanic Percy Boon, whose foray
into stolen cars descends into something much, much worse... Norman
Collins (1907-1982) was a British writer, and later a radio and
television executive, who was responsible for creating Woman's Hour
on BBC Radio 4, and became one of the major figures behind the
establishment of the Independent Television (ITV) network in the
UK. In all Norman Collins wrote 16 novels and two plays, including
London Belongs to Me (1945), The Governor's Lady (1968) and The
Husband's Story (1978). If you enjoyed London Belongs to Me, you
might like Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, also available in
Penguin Modern Classics. 'One of the great city novels: a sprawling
celebration of the comedy, the savagery, the eccentricity and the
quiet heroism at the heart of ordinary London life' Sarah Waters,
author of The Night Watch
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
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Black Ivory (Hardcover)
Norman Collins
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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everyone!
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