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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Lock-Up by John Banville and The Forgotten Girls: An American Story by Monica Potts.
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This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Lock-Up by John Banville and The Forgotten Girls: An American Story by Monica Potts.
City's secrets hiding in plain sight.
City's secrets hiding in plain sight.
London tour guide Jack Chesher has walked many people through the history of the Hardy Tree. Named after the Victorian-era writer Thomas Hardy, the lone ash tree is just a short walk from King's Cross station, in St. Pancras Gardens, surrounded by gravestones. It has been celebrated as a symbol of life amid death for over 150 years — but now the famous tree has met its own end.
"Leinster Gardens at first sight appears to be an ordinary, if pretty fancy, West London terrace," the tour guide explained.