Real Bloomsbury

of the British Museum, University College, RADA, the Friends House, the BMA, Great Ormond Street Hospital. Bloomsbury is crammed with history and with contemporary decision-making. But there is also working class Bloomsbury and, now, Bengali Bloomsbury in the east. Biographer and novelist Nicholas Murray walks this crowded square mile or so, among the locals, the students, the tourists, alone or in the company of local characters, to give Bloomsbury the 'Real' series treatment of history, memoir, 'psychogeography' and oblique approaches to the familiar. His entertaining and informative text is accompanied by equally oblique images, the sort you won't find in either tourist guides or regular history books. All of which present Bloomsbury as it's never been portrayed before: intimate, contemporary, exploratory and occasionally downright strange.

ISBN 185411526X   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781854115263 (What's this?)   Published in Bridgend Publisher Poetry Wales Press   Series title Real Series Imprint Seren   Height (mm) 216 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 135 Publication date 15 Oct 2010   Academic level General DEWEY 914.2142

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