Books Set in London

Sherlock Holmes's 221B Baker Street, Mrs. Dalloway's Westminster, Dickens's slums, Zadie Smith's Willesden, Bridget Jones's Borough Market — London is the most-mapped city in fiction.

40 novels mapped, with every real-world location, the history of each place, and what's there today.

All 40 maps set in London

• 1984 by George Orwell locations map
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess locations map
• Atonement by Ian McEwan locations map
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens locations map
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley locations map
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali locations map
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens locations map
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing locations map
• Fingersmith by Sarah Waters locations map
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens locations map
• Heaven by Angela Carter locations map
• Just Friends by Val Franses locations map
• Murphy by Samuel Beckett locations map
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens locations map
• Patriot Games by Tom Clancy locations map
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle locations map
• The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley locations map
• The BFG by Roald Dahl locations map
• The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum locations map
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon locations map
• The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary locations map
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins locations map
• The House of Killers by Samantha Lee Howe locations map
• The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch locations map
• The Last Man by Mary Shelley locations map
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner locations map
• The Night Watch by Sarah Waters locations map
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory locations map
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde locations map
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams locations map
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides locations map
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson locations map
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman locations map
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells locations map
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James locations map
• The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells locations map
• The Wings of the Dove by Henry James locations map
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré locations map
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith locations map
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel locations map

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