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Gilda O'Neill
A companion volume to O'Neill’s previous work, ‘My East End’, this book focuses exclusively on the oral testimony of East Londoners as they tell their own funny, sad, hopeful and…
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As they desperately try to break free from Tibs’s violent pimp, and to avoid the educated and wealthy yet sinister Dr Tressing, they are also hoping to make a new…
Set in the tough East End of the 1930s, the Mehan family are struggling as work at the docks gets scarcer. Meanwhile, 16-year-old Molly Mehan has caught the eye of…
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The East End belongs to the O'Donnells. Tough, violent and proud, Gabriel O'Donnell has fought his way up from poor Irish roots to run the gambling, prostitution and protection empire…
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For Lisa O'Donnell, the past is a dangerous place. Born into a world dominated by her father’s notorious reputation, even her name marks her out. But Lisa’s determined to make…
The Flanagans, the Tanners and the Lovells live in the Turnbury Building. Nell Flanagan is married to Stephen, a brute of a man. Nell hides the abuse she has suffered…
They believed it would never happen again. They hoped it would be over by Christmas…Britain is at war and the proximity of the docks means that life in and around…
In the 1940s, nearly a quarter of a million East Londoners decamped annually for the hopfields of Kent. Most of the pickers were women, who would take their children and…
A spellbinding saga of London’s East End.Ettie Wilkins has to get out of Whitechapel. As her mother sinks deeper into alcoholism, the volatile lodger sharing their slum turns his attentions…
When Cockney woman Rose Fairleigh goes hop-picking she fears that her daughters blossoming romance will suffer and that her three sons will get into trouble.
An enthralling saga set in London’s East End at the height of the 1930s…Cissie Flowers has had her fair share of hardships but she’s always found a way to smooth…
The O'Donnell family ran their manor in the East End with a fist of iron, keeping control of their gambling, prostitution and protection rackets. Now, Eileen O'Donnell is out of…
London’s East End is a place that is at once appealing and unruly, comforting and incomprehensible. This title traces the East End of London - cockneys, criminals, street markets, pub…
