- 253, geoff ryman { elephant & castle}
- bleak house, charles dickens {chancery courts}
- brick lane, monica ali {brick lane)
- the buddha of suburbia, hanif kureishi {bromley}
- the crimson petal and the white, michael faber {notting hill}
- the end of an affair, graham greene {clapham common}
- fingersmith, sarah waters {borough/lant street}
- a handful of dust, evelyn waugh {belgravia}
- hangover square, patrick hamilton {earl's court}
- keep the apidistra flying, george orwell {hampstead}
- lady's maid, margaret forster {marylebone}
- london, edward rutherfurd {tower bridge & more)
- london fields, martin amis {portobello road}
- neverwhere, neil gaiman {knightsbridge}
- saturday, ian mcewan {cleveland street, w1}
- small island, andrea levy {earl's court}
- white teeth, zadie smith {willesdon}
- wise children, angela carter {brixton}
- the book of dave, will self {richmond}
- how to be good, nick hornby {camden}
- the line of beauty, alan hollinghurst {notting hill}
- the drowned world, jg ballard {leicester square}
- hawksmoor, peter ackroyd {spitalfields}
- notes on a scandal, zoe heller {islington}
- the ballad of peckham rye, muriel spark {peckham rye}
- the lonely londoners, sam selvon {notting hill}
- london novels, colin macinnes {notting hill}
- jonathan strange & mr norrell, susanna clarke {hanover square}
- mrs dalloway, virginia woolf {westminster}
- notting hell, rachel johnson {notting hill}
- londonstani, gautam malkani {hounslow}
- the adventures of sherlock holmes, arthur conan doyle {baker street}
- a dead man in deptford, anthony burgess {deptford}
- a metropolitan murder, lee jackson {baker street}
- diary of nobody, george & weedon grossmith {holloway}
- 4.50 from paddington, agatha christie {paddington}
- the heat of the day, elizabeth bowen {regent's park}
- twenty thousand streets under the sky, patrick hamilton {euston road}
- the long firm, jake arnott {soho}
- mother london, michael moorcok {notting hill}
- the necropolois railway, andrew martin {waterloo}
- only in london, hanan al-shaykh {bayswater/westminster}
- possession, as byatt {british museum}
- three men in a boat, kingston upon thames {kingston upon thames}
- the tiger in the smoke, margery allingham {mayfair}
- towards the end of morning, michael frayn {elephant & castle}
- the last days of newgate, andrew pepper {city}
- sleep with me, joanna briscoe {bloomsbury}
- the queen of the tambourine, jane gardam {merton}
- under the net, iris murdoch {camden}
- growing yams in london, sophia acheampong {cricklewood}
- harry potter & the philosopher's stone, jk rowling {kings cross}
- the haunting of alaizabel cray, piccadilly circus {piccadilly circus}
- paddington bear, michael bond {paddington}
- peter pan, jm barrie {kensington gardens}
- stoneheart, charlie fletcher {natural history museum}
- stormbreaker, anthony horowotiz {science museum}
- madeline in london, ludwig bermelmans {buckingham palace}
- this is london, miroslav sasek {st paul's cathedral}
- raven queen, pauline francis {tower of london}
16.5.08
books & the city
i saw a list recently compiled by my favorite bookshop waterstones with books either set in or about the city of london. this list made me think of a blog post a few months back and a request from a reader for a list of good books on london or by london writers. so although its late i think its better late than never and a great list to share for all those who love a good read like me! the area bold is the title, followed by the author in italics and in {parenthesis} is the area of london discussed/set in the books:
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I guess I had better get reading! How brave of James to shave. Has he started growing it out yet?
well i've read one and a half of them. hp and peter pan ;) that's a long list, are you planning on reading some of them?
Sherrie
I've already read a couple, but probably not the whole list. I've got too many others I want to read.
Erica,
James has decided to do a bit of the 5 oclock shadow thing.
I like it better shaved off, he looks better I think.
I have heard of the Harry Potter and Peter Pan. Which ones do you recommend?
I would recommend out of my list:
brick lane (seen the movie)-great
white teeth (heard amazing stuff about)
Mrs Dalloway (read the book and seen the movie- 'the hours' which is based on this book)
White Teeth (heard amazing things about)
Sherlock Holmes (read)
Harry Potter (never read)
Peter Pan (who hasn't read this?)
Paddington Bear (read & love)
and Madeline in London (love Madeline series)
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