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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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Evangelising on the 253
A slow ride up to Stamford Hill provided ample entertainment of an unrelaxing kind
Jun 23
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London Fiction: A Child of the Jago
Arthur Morrison's brilliant novel of poverty and criminality in Victorian east London should be on every Londoner's bookshelf
Jun 2
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May 2024
London Fiction: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
This Sherlock Holmes short story is a delight for London nerds, especially if they love the Underground
May 22
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London Fiction: White Riot
A powerfully evocative thriller woven from crime, politics and the social conflicts of the London of the late 1970s and early 1980s
May 12
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April 2024
London Fiction: Good Evening, Mrs Craven
Mollie Panter-Downes wrote brilliantly about London and lives lived there during World War II
Apr 23
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Hackney Dandelions
They have a fan
Apr 7
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Barking beckons
Come hither it seemed to say, and so he did.
Apr 1
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March 2024
London Fiction: After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Jean Rhys's novel, first published in 1930, is a portrait of a troubled woman set in two European capitals between the wars
Mar 30
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London Fiction: Gropers (Or a Splendid View of St Pancras)
Fred Basnett's novel vividly captures a strand of mid-Seventies north London life and also reflects some of the social mores of that time
Mar 17
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