Here is a magical evocation of London life during an extraordinary period, which encompasses engagements, a serious illness, numerous changes of address, two weddings, the murder and the subsequent trial, the Blitz both from a distance and close up, and several deaths.

It’s part of a genre, the London novel – along with Saturday (Ian McEwan) The White Family (Maggie Gee) and The Clothes On Their Backs (Linda Grant) all reflecting the urban scene in their own ways.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I recently started reading Jose Saramago’s “A Brief History of the Seige of Lisbon”, and I thought it was very fine, but reading his very long sentences, I got just too tired, so after 60 pages, I switched to Amelie Nothomb’s “Tokyo Fiancee” which is only 170 pages and full of short sentences.

Under the one roof are the Jossers - an clerk on the verge of retirement, his wife and their office worker daughter. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.If you enjoyed London Belongs to Me, you might like Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. I’m not a Londoner; I grew up mostly in the North of England and spent some time in the Potteries (Stoke-on-Trent. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual.