London Reading List

Books about London

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard

• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

• The Last Lion by William Manchester

• Letters from London by Julian Barnes

• London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

• Longitude by Dava Sobel

• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

• St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley

• A Traveller's History of England by Christopher Daniell

• With Wings Like Eagles by Michael Korda

Fiction set in London

• Brick Lane by Monica Ali

• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

• The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

• Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

• The Great Stink by Clare Clark

• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

• In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George

• The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis

• London by Edward Rutherfurd

• Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson

• The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

• Rumpole of the Bailey by Sir John Mortimer

• Saturday by Ian McEwan

• SS-GB by Len Deighton

• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

• White Teeth by Zadie Smith

TV/Movies set in London

• Alfie (1966).

• Battle of Britain (1969)

• Blackadder (1983–1989)

• Call the Midwife (2012–)

• The Elephant Man (1980)

• Golden Eye (1995)

• A Hard Day's Night (1964)

• Hope and Glory (1987)

• The King's Speech (2010)

• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

• My Fair Lady (1964)

• Notting Hill (1999)

• The Queen (2006)

• Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)

• Shakespeare in Love (1999)

• Sherlock (2010–)

• To Sir, with Love (1967)

• Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)

• Waterloo Bridge (1940)