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BOOKS SET IN LONDON

One of the world's great capital cities, London is a real melting pot of people and perspectives and has been the setting for many novels. Test your knowledge of literary London by taking our quiz - and remember, all the books can be found on the EnCompass database.

 

 Question 1.
Which classic novel by Martin Amis is set in the pubs of West London, and features the diabolical darts-playing, wife-beating anti-hero Keith Talent?

London Pubs

London Darts Teams

London Fields

London Nights

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 Question 2.
Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane attracted widespread acclaim for its portrayal of Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi woman trying to make sense of her life. But in which London borough was it set?

Hackney

Tower Hamlets

Kensington

Lambeth

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 Question 3.
What was the title of the J.G. Ballard novel in which psychologist David Markham investigates London's fringe protest movements, focusing on a group based in the comfortable estate of Chelsea Marina?

Millennium People

Cocaine Nights

Kingdom Come

Super-Cannes

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 Question 4.
Who wrote the novel in verse The Emperor's Babe, set in an imaginatively evoked Londinium in AD211?

Bernadine Evaristo

Patience Agbabi

Jackie Kay

Malika Booker

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 Question 5.
What was the title of Gautam Malkani's debut novel, which follows the lives of four young Asian men in Hounslow?

Londondia

Londondesh

Londonlanka

Londonstani

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 Question 6.
Who set out during the UK's foot and mouth crisis to map the vast stretch of urban settlement around London - from the Lea Valley to Uxbridge, from Staines to South Mimms - in London Orbital, A Walk Around the M25?

Iain Crichton Smith

Ian Duhig

Iain Sinclair

Iain Banks

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 Question 7.
Which Sarah Waters novel follows the lives of four Londoners during the Second World War?

Affinity

The Night Watch

Fingersmith

Tipping the Velvet

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 Question 8.
Who wrote the debut novel Disobedience, about a Jewish woman who returns to London to attend the funeral of her father, an eminent elderly rabbi, only to find herself reunited with her childhood girlfriend in very different circumstances?

Chrissie Glazebrook

Howard Jacobson

Julia Darling

Naomi Alderman

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 Question 9.
What's the title of Paul Burston's novel, which is set in London's gay scene and described on EnCompass as 'an unsentimental and sometimes scathing look at that world and its obsessions with body image, drugs and fashion'?

Shameless

Selfless

Careless

Hairless

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 Question 10.
In Helen Fielding's genre-defining Bridget Jones's Diary, stressed-out Londoner Bridget works in what industry?

Hairdressing

Publishing

Weight management

Marriage guidance

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