Category: Literary London
It’s not going to be a long post. I’m besotted with Charles Dickens at the moment, listening to his novels as audiobooks and seeking out places he describes…
l’m wandering around London with Charles Dickens rattling around inside my head at the moment. I listened to the audiobook of David Copperfield, which I started out of…
I’m reading C J Sansom’s latest book Tombland, a murder-mystery set in 1549 and starring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake as medieval sleuth. It’s a time of change. The…
I love it when fictional London collides with a factual version of the city. After visiting Staples Inn a few month’s ago,I recently found this passage in The…
A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates…. ….we go inside and we gravely read the stones All those people all those lives Where…
There were two ponds here originally. Both man-made, the first had been single-handedly dug out by a local hermit in the fourteenth century, possibly as a hobby in…
Walking along Cleveland Street in the direction of the Euston Road there is a small Georgian house at no.22, now an old-fashioned shop selling buttons, with a black…
Some time ago Londonist website ran a poll to choose the best London novel of all time. I’d heard of most of the top ten and had even read…
This is the first of an occasional series of descriptions of London or its constituent parts from books. “And I must say that, in its way, I rather…