Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: The London Canon -- Charles Dickens Bleak House -- George Gissing New Grub Street -- Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent -- Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway -- Evelyn Waugh Vile Bodies -- 2: Occult London -- Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Arthur Machen The Great God Pan -- Peter Ackroyd Hawksmoor -- Iain Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings -- Neil Gaiman Neverwhere -- 3: London in Ruins -- Richard Jefferies After London -- William Morris News from Nowhere -- HG Wells The War of the Worlds -- Henry Green Caught -- JG Ballard The Drowned World -- 4: Criminal London -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet -- Gerald Kersh Night and the City -- Margery Allingham The Tiger in the Smoke -- Derek Raymond I was Dora Suarez -- Anthony Frewin London Blues -- 5: Lost London Writing -- Patrick Hamilton Hangover Square -- Elizabeth Bowen The Heat of the Day -- Samuel Selvon The Lonely Londoners -- Alexander Baron The Lowlife -- Maureen Duffy Capital -- 6: The London Revival -- Michael Moorcock Mother London -- Martin Amis London Fields -- Angela Carter Wise Children -- Christopher Petit Robinson -- Nicholas Royle The Director's Cut -- 7: The Thirty Essential London Novels -- Further Reading -- Index.