My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else).
Includes three novels: "Offshore," about a group of misfits in 1960s London, "Human Voices," a look at the BBC during World War II, and "The Beginning of Spring," about a printer living in Moscow before the Revolution.
Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, this is “a beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like the river at its heart, and just as rich and intriguing” (M.L. Stedman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between ...
Curl, James Stevens, The Victorian Celebration of Death (David & Charles, 1972). Curl, James Stevens, Nunhead Cemetery, London: A history of the Planning, Architecture, Landscaping and Fortunes of a Great Nineteenth-Century Cemetery ...
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Edition examines more than 29,000 major characters from 3,294 important works of literature. It includes the major characters from over 1,400 titles appearing in Masterplots,...
He and his family moved to live on the River Thames, which became the inspiration for the setting of The Wind in ... He wrote to Grahame, saying that he had “read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends.