King Dido

1911, London. The police collaborate with racketeers to keep an uneasy peace, periodically broken by violent gang wars. Dido Peach comes to prominence by breaking the unwritten rules of the street. For a brief time, he rules the underworld. His fall is spectacular, shaking even the callous and vicious neighbourhood in which he is trapped. In the spring of 1949, Jack Agass belatedly returns from the war to the working class street in Islington where he grew up. A proud, supportive community with a pub and a barber shop, and a common love of The Arsenal. But the street has changed. Jack eventually finds his footing but he's haunted by a yearning for his old childhood friend, Rosie Hogarth, and for the prewar security and certainties she represents. Rosie has moved out and up — living bohemianstyle in Bloomsbury. He thinks she's selling sex — it turns out her motive is political. The story of soldiers of the Fifth Battalion, the Wessex Regiment, in the run up to and aftermath of D-Day. Although fictional, it comes directly out of the author's own experience and is regarded as one of the most accurate and unsentimental portrayals of the ordinary soldier's life anywhere in fiction. First published in 1948, there have been enthusiastic endorsements from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, confirming Baron's uncanny knack for capturing the soldier's experience Harryboy is lowlife, scum. But then he is also Harryboy Boas, King of the Track. Trouble starts for Harryboy when the Deaners move into Hackney boarding house. Quicker than he place a bet on a dog, Harryboy finds himself the admired hero and evil genius of the family, particulary the child Gregory. But Harryboy is also the victim of a secret guilt of his own, something unknown even to his doting sister, Debbie, ensconced in her nouveau riche Finchley mansion Engelsk infanteribataillon forbereder sig på at deltage i invasionen i Europa under 2. verdenskrig