Books set in London

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Needing a bit of a London fix, any suggestions for books set in London? Doesn't have to be a major part, just small references. Bonus points if it's a mews setting or somewhere quite nice.

Wonderful book!

Yes, I agree with a previous poster, many books by Nick Hornby are set in London.

"High Fidelity"
"About A Boy"
"A Long Way Down"
"Funny Girl"

I second
Caledonia Road
Capital

also
The Children Act

Brick Lane by Monica Ali.

Sarah Painter Crow family
London Belongs to us Sarra Manning
Kate Griffin Blue Electric Angels

My Friends - Hiram Matar
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has a lot of scenes in London.

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

Anything by Dickens
Quincunx by Charles Palliser

This sounds great - thanks will check it out!

Bleak House & Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

101 Dalmations- feeling nostalgic

Louise Candlish, The Other Passenger.
I had the e-audio book, read by Steven Mackintosh.
Great London atmosphere, twisty story.

The first Rivers of London book is 99p on kindle at the moment

Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham. A real life wartime diary set in Chelsea.

It's so easy to lose yourself in that world, with all the evocative descriptions of the places and people in her life at that time. Really recommend.

London Fields!

The Dreaming Suburb by RF Delderfield
Small pleasures by Clare Chambers
The Heart of London by Monica Dickens

‘Ordinary Thunderstorms’ by William Boyd

Every time I drive past the place he sleeps rough I think if I ever need to, that's where I’ll try first!

I love a bit of Pepys too - particularly listening to R4 dramatisation - very funny but not sure if it’s on sounds (why not! Bloody BBC!)

Sherlock Holmes

My favourite parts of Girl, Woman, Other were the chapters in the northeast.

The Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey are set in London.

Another one for Rivers of London!

26a and Ordinary People by Diana Evans (contemporary)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (post war)
Old Baggage (twenties) and Their Finest Hour and a Half (second world war) by Lissa Evans

London by Edward Rutherford

The Outrun, switches between South London and the Scottish Highlands. And you can watch the film afterwards with Saoirse Ronan which has just come out.

(Don't watch it with her actually, watch it on your own - she's in it 🙃)