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LONDON WRITING
This list includes a selection from the shop's extensive range of stock - both fiction which is set in, and non-fiction which tells interesting tales of - the weird and wonderful metropolis in which Housmans Bookshop finds itself. Our fiction books cover a plethora of cult, trangressive and political material; and our non-fiction stock includes words and pictures relating especially to the historic districts around the shop's Kings Cross base. Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem, Peter Ackroyd (Vintage), pbk £7.99 Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd (Penguin), pbk £8.99 London - The Biography, Peter Ackroyd (Vintage), pbk £14.99 The China Governess, Margery Allingham (Vintage), pbk £7.99 The Tiger in the Smoke, Margery Allingham (Vintage), pbk £6.99 The Drowned World, JG Ballard (Harper Perennial), pbk £7.99 The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (Vintage), pbk £7.99 The Heat of The Day, Elizabeth Bowen (Vintage), pbk £7.99 Wise Children, Angela Carter (Vintage) pbk £7.99 The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad (Penguin Classics), pbk £7.99 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and other writings, Thomas De Quincey (Penguin Classics), pbk £6.99 Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe (Penguin Classic), pbk £5.99 A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe (Penguin), pbk £8.99 Bleak House, Charles Dickens (Penguin), pbk £7.99 A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle (Dover), pbk £2.50 Capital, Maureen Duffy (Harvill), £6.99 Poor Cow, Nell Dunn (Virago), pbk £9.00 Up the Junction, Nell Dunn (Virago), pbk £9.00 Jonathan Wild the Great, Henry Fielding (Hesperus), pbk £7.99 Joseph Andrews and Shamela, Henry Fielding (Penguin Classics), pbk £7.99 Tom Jones, Henry Fielding (Vintage), pbk £7.99 London Blues, Anthony Frewin (No Exit), pbk £6.99 Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (Headline), pbk £7.99 The Beggar's Opera, John Gay (Penguin), pbk £7.99 New Grub Street, George Gissing (Penguin), pbk £11.99 Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton (Penguin), pbk £9.99 Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky, Patrick Hamilton (Vintage), pbk, £7.99 The Slaves of Solitude, Patrick Hamilton (Constable), pbk, £7.99 Yardie, Victor Headly (Pan), pbk, £5.99 Defoe on Sheppard & Wild, Richard Holmes (Harper), pbk, £7.99 Red London, Stewart Home (AK Press), pbk, £5.95 Down and out in Shoreditch and Hoxton, Stewart Home (Donot Press), pbk, £7.99 After London, or Wild England, Richard Jefferies (Echo-Library), pbk £7.90 Night and the City, Gerald Kersh (London Books Classics), hbk £11.99 Prelude to a Certain Midnight, Gerald Kersh (Blackmask Editions), pbk £8.95 The World is a Wedding, Bernard Kops (Five Leaves), pbk £9.99 Bernard Kops' East End, Bernard Kops (Fine Leaves), pbk £9.99 On Brick Lane, Rachel Lichtenstein (Hamish Hamilton), hbk £20.00 Journey Through a Small Planet, Emanuel Litvinoff (Robin Clark), pbk £6.00 Camden Parasites, Daniel Lux (Phoenix Press) pbk £7.95 London Novels, Colin MacInnes (Allison & Busby), pbk £10.99 Mother London, Michael Moorcock (Pocket Books), pbk £8.99 A Child of Jago, Arthur Morrison (Academy, Chicago), pbk £10.50 News From Nowhere, William Morris (Oxford), pbk £7.99 Robinson, Chris Petit (Granta), pbk £6.99 White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, Iain Sinclair (Penguin), pbk £7.99 Lights out for the Territory, Iain Sinclair (Penguin), pbk $9.99 London: City of Disappearances, Iain Sinclair (Penguin) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin), pbk £2.00 King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine (Penguin), pbk £6.99 The House of Stairs, Barbara Vine (Penguin), pbk £7.99 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (Virago), pbk £7.99 Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh (Penguin), pbk £8.99 The War of the Worlds, HG Wells (Penguin Classics), pbk £7.99 Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (Penguin Modern Classics), pbk 7.99