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Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden by Rachel Lichtenstein
Category: Popular History
Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein's fascinating account of London's Hatton Garden. Enter Hatton Garden, one of London's most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean rivers and forgotten palaces. Here you'll meet sewer ...Show more
Diamond Street : The Hidden World of Hatton Garden by Rachel Lichtenstein
Category: Humour
Hatton Garden is one of the most secret streets in England, home for two centuries to a deeply private working community of diamond and jewellery dealers. Intimately connected to the area both personally (her family run a jewellery business there) and professionally (as an artist archivist of London's s ...Show more
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
Category: Animals & Nature
An immersive, intimate journey into the world of the Thames Estuary and the people who spend their lives there The Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas, providing passage in and out of London for millennia. It is silted up with the memories and artefacts of past voyages. It is the habitat f ...Show more
Estuary: Out from London to the sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
Category: Fiction
The Thames Estuary is both a waterway and an edgeland of civilisation. Over centuries it has been swept back and forth by tides of history, commerce, tradition, piracy, war, art and, of course, the weather and currents which make it a danger to the innocent and experienced alike. Inspired by its eerie b ...Show more
On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein
Category: Biography Memoir
Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths, and interspersing these with maps and photography, "On Brick Lane" is a one-of-a-kind chronicle of one of London's most remarkable streets. Bri ...Show more
Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein
Category: Judaica
David Rodinsky lived in the old Jewish East End of London. Sometime in the late sixties he disappeared and his room was left undisturbed for 20 years. This is the story of artist Rachel Lichtenstein's fascination with the enigmatic Rodinsky and how in uncovering his past she uncovered her own.
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