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Oliver Twist - Dingy, crime-ridden
streets, the downtrodden Victorian poor; welcome to Charles
Dickens, the definitive London author in full throttle. See
also Bleak House, A Christmas Carol and Little Dorrit.
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 Mrs Dalloway - Bloomsbury group
stalwart Virginia Woolf remains one of the major figures
in world literature. Here she gives full rein to her ground breaking
stream of conciousness style in the story of an upper crust socialite
and a battle-scared war veteran. Buy Mrs Dalloway Now
 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Snobby detective
sniffs out wrong doing from his Baker Street base in Arthur
Conan Doyle's famous portrayal of dispassionate, dilettante
logic applied to the realms of the senses. Buy The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Now
The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene's
superb novel set in wartime London. Regarded as England's finest
post-war writer, Greene's other novels with a strong London element
include The Human Factor, It's a Battlefield and The End of the
Affair. Buy The Ministry of Fear Now
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell's
seminal anti-authoritarian tome is set in a bleak, soulless London
that fortunately never met its appointed date with history. The
section in the book on Hampstead Heath offers poignant relief
the from the doom laden and claustrophobic cityscapes. See also
Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London which remains a powerful
indictment of homelessness. Buy Nineteen Eighty-Four Now
 London Fields - Martin Amis's
memorably middle-class fear of the mob epic. Dickens plus swearing
and sex, minus compassion. Buy London Fields Now
 84 Charing Cross Road - Touching correspondence across the
Atlantic Ocean form's basis of Helena Hanff's quiet novel.
Charing Cross Road is still the centre for bookshops in London.
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 The Buddha of Suburbia - Nothing dates like
the recent past, they say, and that certainly applies to Hanif
Kureishi's patchy, if influential, trawl through the hopes
and fears of a group of suburbanites semi-detatched by location
and lifesytle. Buy The Buddha of Suburbia Now
 The Secret Agent ­ Recently voted
the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Randon House's esteemed
literary panel, Joseph Conrad's spy classic, set 100 years
ago, sends up the pretensions of both the London police and a
revolutionary cabal. Buy The Secret Agent Now
 The Jeeves Stories - Many regard PG
Wodehouse as the funniest ever writer in English. His famously
upper-class twittish Jeeves character lived in exclusive Mayfair
and only really left the capital on jolly weekend jaunts with
his pals. Buy PG Wodehouse - Five Complete
Novels Now
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