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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: to 1900


We are open to offers of contributions - entries on novels already posted or being written:

.     Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, 1722 - posted

.     Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860-61 - posted

.     Walter Besant, All Sorts and Conditions of Men, 1882 - posted

.    Margaret Harkness, A City Girl, 1887

.    Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs, 1888 - posted

.     Margaret Harkness, Out of Work, 1888 - posted


.     Margaret Harkness, In Darkest London, 1889 - posted

.       Julia Frankau, A Babe in Bohemia, 1889 - posted 

·     George Gissing, The Nether World, 1889 - posted

.     Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, 1890 -posted


.       George Gissing, New Grub Street, 1891 - posted

·       John Henry Mackay, The Anarchists, 1891

·      Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, 1892

·      George Moore, Esther Waters, 1894

.       Henry W. Nevinson, Neighbours of Ours, 1895 - posted

·      Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago, 1896 - posted

·       W. Somerset Maugham, Liza of Lambeth, 1897

.      William Pett Ridge, Mord Em'ly, 1898 - posted

.       M.P. Shiel, The Yellow Danger, 1898 - posted


·       Richard Whiteing, No. 5 John Street, 1899

.       Arthur Morrison, To London Town, 1899 - posted



 There's many, more more which merit an entry.