JULIE MYERSON – HOME

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In Home, the novelist Julie Myerson breaks new ground by writing the story of the Victorian terrace house in Clapham where she and her family have lived since 1988.

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JOHN O’FARRELL – MAY CONTAIN NUTS

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Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother […]

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The New Mrs Clifton – Elizabeth Buchan

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At the end of WWII Gus brings back an emotionally damaged German wife, Krista, to […]

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End of the Affair – Graham Greene

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Graham Greene is inextricably linked with Clapham. He lived at 14 Clapham Northside and his novel The End of the Affair is set in Clapham at the end of the Second World War.

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The Orphans – Annemarie Neary

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The Orphans by Annemarie Neary is set on Clapham Common and the author was inspired by Clapham Common, especially the Bandstand Cafe, the old changing rooms and the wood.

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Tom Canty – Clapham Lights

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Clapham Lights is not a love letter to London. It’s a scraggy postcard with a few tired, heartfelt lines scribbled on the back…

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Capital – John Lanchester

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Set in a single South London street, Capital ended up as one of the defining portraits of the human effects of a global financial crisis

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Fu Manchu – Sax Rohmer

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Dr Fu-Manchu. The sinister doctor was created by Sax Rohmer and appeared in over a dozen novels and feature films in the first half of the last century, rivalling Sherlock Holmes in popularity.

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One – Jennifer Cahill

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It’s London in the mid-noughties before Facebook, iPhones and ubiquitous wifi, and One? follows the highs and lows of a group of twenty-somethings living in leafy SW4.

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Atonement – Ian McEwan

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Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement.

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