London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins - ISBN: 9780141442334
Paperback
Londoners grapple with love, loss, and looming war in 1938.

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  • Paperback

    752 pages

  • Release Date

    17 April 2009

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Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141442334
ISBN-10:0141442336
Author:Norman Collins, Ed Glinert
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:752
Release Date:17 April 2009
Weight:516g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 33mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

‘The capital’s great vernacular novel … a joyous romp through a slice of London life’ - Ed Glinert

‘The capital’s great vernacular novel ! a joyous romp through a slice of London life’ - Ed Glinert

About The Author

Norman Collins

Norman Collins was born in 1907. He was a British writer, and later a radio and television executive, who 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.

Ed Glinert read Classical Hebrew at Manchester University and in 1983 founded the city’s listings magazine, City Life, which he edited until 1989. The following decade he was local government correspondent for Private Eye magazine. He has since written a variety of books, including The London Compendium and East End Chronicles, both for Penguin, as well as editing the Sherlock Holmes stories and the Gilbert & Sullivan libretti for Penguin Classics.

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