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I hate reading historical fiction when it seems perfectly obvious that the author has no idea where they are. They don’t know the place names, they don’t know the roads, and they haven’t the foggiest sense of how people actually got from one part of the city to another. It is surprisingly common for novels set in London to take the reader on absurdly circuitous routes, simply because the author hasn’t bothered to look at a map.
This is particularly irksome and unforgivable in London’s case because so many of the streets and alleyways are still in existence. For my…
From A.J.'s list on The best books for the curious London time traveler.
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