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10 top Books set in London

27th November 2014

These are our current 10 top books set in London – as rated by members of the TripFiction community. Find out more about any of them by clicking on the title or cover image… And let us know in the Comments Box below whether your favourites have been included… we’d love to hear from you! You can also check out our top 10 books set in AmsterdamBerlin, New York, ParisRome, Tokyo, and Venice.

 

1. Londoners by Craig Taylor

 

Londoners

 

Here are the voices of London – rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men (and a Sarah who used to be a George) – witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed Canadian journalist, playwright and writer, who has…

 

 

 

2. Mother London by Michael Moorcock

 

Mother London

 

A large, though never sprawling, novel Mother London follows three mental-hospital outpatients Mary Gasalee, David Mummery and Josef Kiss and their friends, in an episodic, non-linear history of the capital from the Blitz to present day. Most noteworthy is…

 

 

3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

 

A Christmas carol

 

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, miserable, bitter old man with no friends. One cold Christmas Eve, three ghosts take him on a scary journey to show him the error of his nasty ways. By visiting his past, present and…

 

 

4. A Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans

 

Crooked Heart

 

When Noel Bostock – aged ten, no family – is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he ends up living in St Albans with Vera Sedge – thirty-six and drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money,…

 

 

5. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

 

Offshore

 

Offshore possesses perfect, very odd pitch. In just over 130 pages of the wittiest and most melancholy prose, Penelope Fitzgerald illuminates the lives of “creatures neither of firm land nor water”–a group of barge-dwellers in London’s Battersea Reach, circa…

 

 

6. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

 

Rivers of London

 

My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns…

 

 

7. Single in the City by Michele Gorman

Single in the City

 

It’s official. Hannah has left her friends and family in the US behind and is following her dream. To live in London. Unfortunately she’s completely unprepared for what’s in store. She’s going to find: 1. Her dream guy. A….

 

8. Spitalfields Life by The Gentle Author

 

Spitalfields

 

“I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London…” Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary…

 

 

9. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

 

Cuckoo

 

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case….

 

 

10. The End of the Affair by Grahame Greene

 

End of the Affair

 

Set in London during and just after World War II, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair is a pathos-laden examination of a three-way collision between love of self, love of another and love of God. The affair in…

 

 

 

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