Melanie McGrath

Pie and Mash Down the Roman Road: 100 years of love and life in one East End market

Describes how, in 1953, three dozen Inuit were forcibly relocated from the east coast of Hudson Bay to the high arctic by the Canadian government, focusing on the effects of the relocation on members of the Flaherty family and on the Inuit community of El

A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic

The Long Exile

'You won't want to eat, sleep or blink' Tammy Cohen An unexpected visitor. Dr Cat Lupo aches for another child, despite the psychosis which marked her first pregnancy. So when Ruby Winter, a small girl in need of help, arrives in the middle of the night, it seems like fate. A devastating secret. But as the events behind Ruby's arrival emerge - her mother's death, her connection to Cat - Cat questions whether her decision to help Ruby has put her own daughter at risk. Do we get the children we deserve? Cat's research tells her there's no such thing as evil. Her history tells her she's paranoid. But her instincts tell her different. And as the police fight to control a sudden spate of riots raging across the capital, Cat faces a race against time of her own... Compulsive, dark and devastating, Give Me the Child is a uniquely skilful thriller with an unforgettable twist.

Give Me the Child

'Silvertown' is the story of one East End family, across three generations, living on the fringe of the Thames. Through the story of her family, Melanie McGrath recounts the history of this traditional inner city heartland.

An East End Family Memoir

Silvertown

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2018 AND THE ANDRÉ SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARDS 2019 'Filled with hearty goodness and packed together with care, this will go down a treat' Evening Standard 'Rich and compelling' Spectator 'An accomplished social history ... lively and absorbing' Who Do You Think You Are? The fascinating history of an iconic East End institution from the bestselling author of Silvertown, Melanie McGrath. G Kelly's Pie and Mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundred years; an East End institution and the still point of a turning world. Outside its windows the Roman Road has seen an extraordinary revolution - from women's liberation and industrialisation to wars and immigration - and yet at its heart it remains one of the last traditional market roads of London. Pie and Mash down the Roman Road is the biography of that shop and of the people - customers, suppliers, employees, owners - who passed through it, and continue to do so. Through vivid tales of ordinary lives the book tells the extraordinary story of the community living around the oldest trading route in Britain, and the true heart of the East End.

100 years of love and life in one East End market

Pie and Mash Down the Roman Road

The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys -- the locals of the old East End.

The Hidden Lives of an East End Hop Picking Family

Hopping

In 1922 the Irish-American explorer Robert Flaherty made a film called 'Nanook of the North' which captured the world's imagination. Soon afterwards, he quit the Arctic for good, leaving behind his bastard son, Joseph, to grow up Eskimo.Thirty years later a young, inexperienced policeman, Ross Gibson, was asked by the Canadian government to draw up a list of Inuit who were to be resettled in the uninhabited polar Arctic and left to fend as best they could. Joseph Flaherty and his family were on that list. They were told they were going to an Arctic Eden of spring flowers and polar bears. But it didn't turn out that way, and this, Joseph Flaherty's story, tells how it did turn out.

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