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To 1900
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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Great London novels over these thirty years, among them:
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Pamela Hansford Johnson,
This Bed Thy Centre
, 1935 - posted
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Simon Blumenfeld,
Jew Boy
, 1935 - posted
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John Sommerfield,
May Day
, 1936 - posted
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James Curtis,
The Gilt Kid
, 1936 - posted
. Virginia Woolf,
The Years
, 1937 - posted
. Samuel Beckett,
Murphy
, 1938 - posted
.
Sajjad Zaheer,
A Night in London
, 1938
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posted
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Gerald Kersh,
Night and the City
, 1938
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John Sommerfield,
Trouble in Porter Street
, 1939 - posted
·
Patrick Hamilton,
Hangover Square
, 1941 - posted
. Graham Greene,
The Ministry of Fear
, 1943 - posted
. Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
Guignol's Band I & II
, 1944 / 1964 - posted
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Norman Collins,
London Belongs To Me
, 1945
- posted
·
Elizabeth Bowen,
The Heat of the Day
,
1948 - posted
. George Orwell,
Nineteen Eighty-Four
, 1949 - posted
.
Rose Macaulay,
The World My Wilderness
, 1950 - posted
.
Graham Greene,
The End of the Affair
, 1951 - posted
·
Alexander Baron,
Rosie Hogarth
,
1951 - posted
·
Margery Allingham,
The Tiger in the Smoke
, 1952
. Jack Lindsay,
Rising Tide
, 1953 - posted
.
Iris Murdoch,
Under the Net
, 1954 - posted
·
Samuel Selvon,
The Lonely Londoners
, 1956 - posted
.
Gerald Kersh,
Fowlers End
, 1957 - posted
·
Colin Macinnes,
City of Spades
, 1957 - posted
.
Kevin FitzGerald,
Trouble in West Two
, 1958 - posted
·
Colin Macinnes,
Absolute Beginners
, 1959 - posted
.
E.R. Braithwaite,
To Sir, with Love
, 1959 - posted
·
Lynne Reid Banks,
The L-Shaped Room
, 1960
-
posted
.
Colin MacInnes,
Mr Love and Justice
, 1960, posted
.
Colin Wilson,
Ritual in the Dark
, 1960 - posted