Town Landscapes

A Book with a View: writing inspired by world landmarks and landscapes gives London's librarians the chance to recommend a selection of quirky fiction and non-fiction inspired by local and world architecture: on this page you'll find stories set in towns. Other choices are

The selection includes books which are available in accessible formats (i.e. large print, talking books or Braille) through Revealweb and these are indicated with The Revealweb eye icon

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Beat hotel - Barry Miles

ISBN: 9781903809587

Tales of the Beat Generation from a man who witnessed their life and times. Barry Miles' account is drawn from his diaries and notes of the time and gives insight into some of these great literary figures of the 50s and 60s

Country of origin: United States

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The Day job: adventures of a jobbing gardener - Mark Wallington

Available in accessible formats - see www.revealweb.org.uk

ISBN: 9780099472674

Mark Wallington resolves that he is the man to change the comedy scene in Britain and in order to fund this enterprise takes up as a gardener to the residents of North London. This comic book tells the tales of the people he encounters and explores the British obsession that is gardening

-- Barking and Dagenham

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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The Lost garden - Helen Humphreys

ISBN: 074756261X

Canadian poet Helen Humphrey's beautiful evocation of love in wartime Britain.

-- Havering

Country of origin: United Kingdom

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