A unique piece of London, cradle of design talent, heartland of the capital’s music scene, multicultural melting pot, Camden Lock is the world’s most famous market. The Lock started life as a collection of craft units housed in Victorian horse stables in a run-down timber wharf on the banks of the Regent’s Canal. Today an industrial dead zone has been transformed into London’s second most popular free attraction after the British Museum. The story of Camden Lock is one of dereliction and rejuvenation. Careers have started – and ended – at the Lock. Fortunes have been made, and lost, overnight. Craftspeople have become internationally known artists. Struggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.
Caitlin Davies Books
This author weaves narratives rich with themes of swimming, London's history, and the stories of outsiders. Her early works, influenced by twelve years spent in Botswana, offer glimpses into life beyond the familiar. Later, her focus shifted to the vibrant history and hidden narratives of London, uncovering fascinating figures and events. Her prose is marked by a deep engagement with historical characters and their fates, often with a distinctive focus on aquatic pursuits and their cultural significance.
In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.
The incredible story of Britain's female gangsters from the seventeenth century to the present day.
The history of the UK's real-life female detectives told for the first time
De zwarte moerbeiboom
- 426 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Tegen de achtergrond van het weelderige, wilde landschap van Noord-Botswana ontvouwt zich de onvergetelijke geschiedenis van twee families, wier lot met elkaar is vervlochten. Vier vrouwen vertellen afwisselend hun verhaal: Nathewa, haar dochter Kazi, haar jeugdvriendin Petra en haar kleindochter Candy hebben ieder hun visie op de gebeurtenissen. Over een periode van zestig jaar, doorspekt met reizen, met passie en liefdesverdriet, met spanningen en misverstanden, wordt het betoverende verhaal van de twee families langzaam onthuld.
Au pays des roseaux
- 648 pages
- 23 hours of reading
Récit de C. Davies sur sa vie au Botswana, le pays représentant toutes ses attentes. Dès son arrivée, elle tombe amoureuse de l'Afrique, de ses paysages, de ses traditions et de ses habitants. Elle épouse Ron, prend la nationalité botswanaise et rédige des articles dans un journal local. Mais un événement vient troubler cette harmonie et, abandonnée de tous, elle voit son bonheur s'effondrer.
