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London Fiction – A Bear Called Paddington
Reading the very first Michael Bond's stories about one of the treasures of children's fiction all the way through brings home the context in which he…
Oct 1
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September 2024
London Fiction – The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot short story from the 1920s reveals, among other things, that flat-hunting in the capital has never been straightforward
Sep 25
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London Fiction – Crouch End
Legendary US horror writer Stephen King made a lot of weird stuff happen in the north London suburb inside his head
Sep 16
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London Fiction - The Tiger in the Smoke
Crime queen Margery Allingham brought to life a post-war London of bereavement and peasoupers in her 1952 novel
Sep 11
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August 2024
London Fiction - Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens's second novel maps the social geography of Victorian London and draws a contrast between the depravity of its criminal underworld and…
Aug 31
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Age Advancing
The city is vast and fast, but there is still consideration for the slow
Aug 27
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Summer morning saunter
There is a lot to be said for noticing things mostly taken for granted
Aug 22
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London Fiction – The End of the Affair
Graham Greene's 1951 novel is mostly about love, sex and religion, but the wartime capital is strongly evoked
Aug 4
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Bleak, odd, glitzy Golden Square
From plague burial ground to Dickens setting to home of advertising giants in just a few short centuries
Aug 1
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July 2024
London Fiction: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell's interwar novel deploys the social geography of London as settings for his satire
Jul 21
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London fiction: The Swimming-Pool library
Alan Hollinghurst's novel captures an unofficial London of the 1980s and before
Jul 12
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June 2024
The view from the vet's
Is London progressing?
Jun 26
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