London Fields

Martin Amis

Contemporary Fiction

London Fields is Amis murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a black hole of s

femmefatale, london

Dorian

An Imitation

Will Self

Contemporary Fiction

Will Selfs DORIAN is a shameless imitation of Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel

lgbt, london, reimagining, urbanism

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

Classic Fiction

In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year,

england, historical, london, pandemic, plague

Other People

Martin Amis

Contemporary Fiction

She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: Youre on your own now. Take car

amnesia, literary, london, thriller

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Classic Fiction

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chance

england, legal, london, victorian

The Book of Dave

Will Self

Contemporary Fiction

When cabdriver Dave Rudmans wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, h

london, religion, taxi