Oh to be in England -

In honor of the Olympics, we are featuring some recently published fiction set in London and some nonfiction about the city. 

Fiction -

                         Abdication - Juliet Nicolson

                       Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway

                                                                    Blue Monday - Nicci French

                                                                      Capital - John Lanchester

                                                                 Chemistry of Tears - Peter Carey

                                                                 The Demands - Mark Billingham

                                                                          Gold - Chris Cleave

                                                                 How it All Began - Penelope Lively

                                                                      The Reckoning - Jane Casey

                                                                   The Spoiler - Annalena McAfee

Nonfiction -

                                                     Johnson's Life of London - Boris Johnson

                         London Under; the Secret History Beneath the Streets - Peter Ackroyd

                                Londoner's; the Days and Nights of London Now - Craig Taylor

Cheerio!