London fiction has also taken an interest in the margins of metropolitan life: the contrast between West End ..
... BENNETT: RICEYMAN STEPS (1923) Mr Earlforward, a m iser who owns a secondhand bookshop off the King's Cross Road, decides to get married, with tragic consequences,.. J B PRIESTLEY; ANGEL PAVEMENT (1930) The arrival of the mysterious Mr Golspie to galvanise the ...