The London Compendium
Ed Glinert
The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the length and breadth of the city to unravel its mysteries, travelling through time from the Romans' London wall to the new Olympic site at Stratford. This is London as you have never seen it before.
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Ed Glinert
Ed Glinert has been a journalist and writer since the days of hot metal, galleys and bromides. He has written more than a dozen books for leading publishers – Penguin, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, Fodor’s and Emons – is an Arts Society lecturer, Cruise Ships speaker and one of Britain’s most prolific tour guides, operating in London, Manchester and Liverpool. After jointly winning student journalist of the year in 1981, Ed set up Manchester’s City Life magazine and ran a series of hard-hitting investigative pieces on council incompetence and police corruption. Th...
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