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London Writing

Discover the city through the pages of these recommended good reads; tales of the vibrant, gritty, weird and wonderful metropolis that is London.


Title 

Author 

Hawksmoor 

Peter Ackroyd 

Brick Lane 

Monica Ali 

The Tiger in the Smoke 

Margery Allingham 

Truecrime 

Jake Arnott 

The Drowned World 

J. G. Ballard 

King Dido 

Alexandra Baron 

The Heat of the Day 

Elizabeth Bowen 

The Secret Agent 

Joseph Conrad 

Moll Flanders 

Daniel Defoe 

Bleak House   

Charles Dickens 

New Grub Street 

George Gissing 

Hangover Square 

Patrick Hamilton 

Night and the City 

Gerald Kersh 

Absolute Beginners (The London Novels)

Colin MacInnes 

Mother London 

Michael Moorcock 

The Book of Dave 

Will Self 

The Lonely Londoners 

Samuel Selvon 

Downriver 

Iain Sinclair 

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 

Robert Louis Stevenson 

War of the Worlds 

H. G. Wells 

Wide Boys Never Work 

Robert Westerby 

Mrs Dalloway 

Virginia Woolf 

Children of the Ghetto 

Israel Zangwill 

Thursday, February 9, 2012


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