Books set in London

[argyllherewecome]

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.

It's not set in the Highlands, it's in Orkney.

Sorry, you're quite right!

64 Charing Cross Road. Simply wonderful. An exchange of letters about books.

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
The Slow Horses series
How to Kill your Family by Bella Mackie
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Between the Stops Sandi Tosvig
An Experiment in Love Hilary Mantel

Bad Fruit by Ella King, set in Greenwich
The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams (part of a trilogy)

Greenery Street by Denis Mackail. Written in the 1920s about a newlywed couple in London and delightful…Persephone Books publishes it.

A Week in December- Sebastian Faulks; South of the River- Blake Morrison; Absolute Beginners - Colin MacInnes

The Life Class trilogy by Pat Barker is very good, it follows friends from art school through the first and second world wars and is mostly set in London. Good if you know Bloomsbury/ central London

I've just started reading A Long Shadow by David Beckler. It's brilliant.

Iris Murdoch's Under the Net is a wonderful London novel.

Well there's the Agatha Christie short story Murder in the Mews. 😃

Definitely The Paying Guests. How about London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins? Or The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon?

Obviously plenty of Dickens especially A Christmas Carol but wrong time of year maybe.

The sequels to Diary of A Provincial Lady - The Provincial Lady Goes Further and The Provincial Lady in Wartime.

Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers.

Jeeves and Wooster stories often largely take place in London.

Love a London book!

Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day - Winifred Watson
84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths - Barbara Comyns

Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild.
Published in 1936 and set in the late 1920s. The Fossil girls live in a big house in the Cromwell Road not far from the V&A.

Various crime series by Anne Perry - Victorian London.

M V Hughes' 'London Child' memoirs - late Victorian.

The Raffles stories by E W Hornung - published from 1899 onwards. Many of them are set in Victorian/Edwardian London.

Dorothy L Sayers, some of the Lord Peter Wimsey books.

John Buchan; several of his thrillers are set, or partly set, in London. The Thirty Nine Steps starts in London with action then moving to Scotland.

Loved that. Got the DVD too! Was one of my bookclub choices.

Loves a Jeeves and Wooster! It is the description of the terrifying Aunts that does it for me!!!

I was going to suggest these too!
Also Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell

Thank you everyone, sorry for not replying earlier, I've been too unwell. Will bookmark all of these.

@argyllherewecome
I hope you are feeling better!

Thank you for starting the thread, I got lots of interesting book recommendations from it.

And if you want something very light, ‘It’s Complicated’ by Emma Hughes is set in Ealing.

Lots of Peter Ackroyd

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst