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LONDON
by EDWARD RUTHERFURD
With its fast-moving plots, packed with information,
LONDON tells a two-thousand year tale of families in England's capital, from Roman to present times.
Segovax, a Celtic boy with webbed fingers and a white flash in his hair, who tries to save his father from Julius Caesar and his Roman legions, is the ancestor of both the poor and the aristocratic .
Saxon Bulls and Carpenters, Viking Barnikels, Norman Silversleeves, Flemings from Flanders, Merediths from Wales, the Protestant Penny family, from France, Scottish Forsyths - as they interact and intermarry, reflect the rich genealogy of the British, a nation of immigrants.
As the city grows, we witness London's Roman amphitheatre, 's , the building of the , of 's Globe and mighty , the growth of the mean streets of Dickens and the fashionable West End.
The family saga involves the characters in the Norman Conquest, the massacre of the Jews, and Parliament's rise, and the Peasants' Revolt.
We watch the martyrdom of St Thomas More, the beheading of Charles I, the visit of , and the sailing of the .
We experience the Plague and Fire of London, and Hitler's Blitz.
Through Rutherfurd's rich research, we learn about the workings of medieval , the College of Heralds, cockney rhyming slang, the South Sea Bubble, the great run on the banks of 1825, and the scandal caused by the suffragettes.
Aristocrats and stonemasons, brewers and grocers, aldermen and prostitutes, forgers and bodysnatchers, every class and type is to be found in the great river of life that, like the River Thames itself, flows ceaselessly through LONDON.
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