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	London / Robinson In Space [1994] [DVD] Buy new: £12.58 / Used from: £10.20 A thoughtful lament for Thatcher's dismembered capital - great cinematogrophy
	The Last Of England [DVD] [1988] Buy new: £12.88 Further poetical complaints about Thatcher, the IRA etc. Inconsistent but interesting
	Blow Up [DVD] [1966] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.78 Ignore the 60's ephemera - listen to the silence of woolwich park
	The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library) by Samuel Pepys Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £4.87 If the description of the Great Fire doesn't make you cry, you must be stonier than the old woman of Threadneedle St
	Lights Out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.00 Any Sinclair will do, but this is the most readable - and useful too
	London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £7.00 Useful as a work of reference, but stylistically inferior to its model (Sinclair)
	Performance [VHS] [1970] Buy used from: £0.10 Pretentious yet thoroughly enjoyable - Cammell's only masterpiece.
	A-Z London Street Atlas (Street Maps & Atlases) Buy used from: £0.01 The Bible
	Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £17.93 Almost great portrait of a Great Londoner, Francis Bacon
	Clockwork Orange [1972] [DVD] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £2.43 Not a particularly good book or film, but does create a memorable nightmare image of lives in brutalist architecture
	The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas De Quincey Buy used from: £1.25 An original English waster
	"The Waste Land" and other Poems by T.S. Eliot Buy used from: £0.01 Covers the whole of western civilization (and a bit of Indian too), but the images of London are unforgettable
	The Atrocity Exhibition: Annotated (Flamingo Modern Classics) by J.G. Ballard Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.86 Is it London or is it Everycity at the end of the 20th Century?
	A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Buy new: £5.05 / Used from: £2.00 More about the streets than the pestilence
	Quatermass and the Pit [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £19.95 Enjoyable horror about Things in the underground, a very British Godzilla (kindling Blitz nightmares)
	A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 One of London's greatest sons is expertly reanimated from rare fragments into something larger than life
	The Swimming Pool Library (Vintage Blue) by Alan Hollinghurst Buy used from: £0.57 An enjoyable journey through homosexual London (and history)