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    • Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year
    • Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
    • Walter Besant: All Sorts and Conditions of Men
    • Amy Levy: Reuben Sachs
    • Margaret Harkness: Out of Work
    • Margaret Harkness: In Darkest London
    • Julia Frankau: A Babe in Bohemia
    • George Gissing: The Nether World
    • Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four
    • George Gissing: New Grub Street
    • H.W. Nevinson: Neighbours of Ours
    • Arthur Morrison: A Child of the Jago
    • William Pett Ridge: Mord Em'ly
    • M.P. Shiel: The Yellow Danger
    • Arthur Morrison: To London Town
  • 1901-1930
    • Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
    • A. Neil Lyons: Arthur's
    • Thomas Burke: Limehouse Nights
    • Dorothy Richardson: The Tunnel
    • Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room
    • Arnold Bennett: Riceyman Steps
    • Aldous Huxley: Antic Hay
    • Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
    • Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators
    • Lao She: Mr Ma and Son
    • Patrick Hamilton: The Midnight Bell
    • Jean Rhys: After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
    • A.P. Herbert: The Water Gipsies
  • 1931-1960
    • Pamela Hansford Johnson: This Bed Thy Centre
    • Simon Blumenfeld: Jew Boy
    • John Sommerfield: May Day
    • James Curtis: The Gilt Kid
    • Virginia Woolf: The Years
    • Samuel Beckett: Murphy
    • Sajjad Zaheer: A Night in London
    • John Sommerfield: Trouble in Porter Street
    • Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square
    • Graham Greene: The Ministry of Fear
    • Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Guignol's Band I & II
    • Norman Collins: London Belongs to Me
    • Elizabeth Bowen: The Heat of the Day
    • George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
    • Rose Macaulay: The World My Wilderness
    • Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
    • Alexander Baron: Rosie Hogarth
    • Jack Lindsay: Rising Tide
    • Iris Murdoch: Under the Net
    • Samuel Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
    • Gerald Kersh: Fowlers End
    • Colin MacInnes: City of Spades
    • Kevin FitzGerald: Trouble in West Two
    • Colin MacInnes: Absolute Beginners
    • E.R. Braithwaite: To Sir, with Love
    • Lynne Reid Banks: The L-Shaped Room
    • Colin MacInnes: Mr Love and Justice
    • Colin Wilson: Ritual in the Dark
  • 1961-1990
    • Colin Wilson: Adrift in Soho
    • Terry Taylor: Baron's Court, All Change
    • Laura Del-Rivo: The Furnished Room
    • Robert Poole: London E1
    • Len Deighton: The Ipcress File
    • Alexander Baron: The Lowlife
    • B.S. Johnson: Albert Angelo
    • Waguih Ghali: Beer in the Snooker Club
    • Anthony Cronin: The Life of Riley
    • Nell Dunn: Poor Cow
    • Kamala Markandaya: The Nowhere Man
    • Lionel Davidson: The Chelsea Murders
    • Penelope Fitzgerald: Offshore
    • J.M. O'Neill: Duffy is Dead
    • Muriel Spark: A Far Cry from Kensington
    • Martin Amis: London Fields
    • Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia
    • Neil Bartlett: Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
    • Nigel Williams: The Wimbledon Poisoner
  • 1991 on
    • Peter Ackroyd: The Plato Papers
    • Zadie Smith: White Teeth
    • Chris Petit: The Hard Shoulder
    • Iain Banks: Dead Air
    • Monica Ali: Brick Lane
    • Naomi Alderman: Disobedience
    • Xiaolu Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
    • Jonathan Kemp: London Triptych
    • Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo
    • Zadie Smith: NW
    • Paula Hawkins: The Girl on the Train
    • Natasha Pulley: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
    • Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire
    • Michele Roberts: The Walworth Beauty
    • Balli Kaur Jaswal: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
    • Claire North: 84K
    • Tony White: The Fountain in the Forest
    • Vesna Goldsworthy: Monsieur Ka
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London Fictions: 1901-1930


A wealth of London novels in this period. We will certainly want to include:·       

.    Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, 1907 - posted

.   A. Neil Lyons, Arthur's, 1908 - posted

.   Thomas Burke, Limehouse Nights, 1916 - posted


.     Dorothy Richardson, The Tunnel, 1919 - posted

.    Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, 1922 - posted


·     Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, 1923 - posted

.    Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, 1923 - posted


·     Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 1925 - posted

.      Christopher Isherwood, All the Conspirators, 1928 - posted

.       Lao She, Mr Ma and Son, 1929 - posted

.      Patrick Hamilton, The Midnight Bell, 1929 - posted

​.     Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, 1930 - posted


·      J.B. Priestley, Angel Pavement, 1930

.      A.P. Herbert, The Water Gipsies, 1930 - posted