{"title":"Jacqueline Riding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacqueline Riding\u003c\/strong\u003e offers deeply researched and compelling narratives that explore historical figures and events with nuance and insight. Her works often blend biography with vivid storytelling, making the past come alive through meticulous detail and engaging prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful reflections on lives shaped by hardship and resilience, with a focus on revealing untold stories and fresh perspectives. Ideal for those who appreciate history told through personal experience and careful scholarship, Riding’s books provide both education and emotional resonance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hard-streets-by-jacqueline-riding-9781800818644","title":"Hard Streets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHard Streets\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich and emotive study of a world now lost that will leave readers stunned, according to Hallie Rubenhold, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Five\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFramed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Breathing life into forgotten stories of mothers and sons, labourers and actors, vagrants and sex workers, of suffering, survival and success against the odds, this compelling social history paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496021147884,"sku":"9781800818644","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781800818644-hard-streets.jpg?v=1775795657"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jacqueline-riding.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}