Books - What are you reading?

I loved Great Expectations, partly because most of it is set in a collection of villages that surround London- like Walworth. Obv. everyone knows that London used to be villages that got absorbed by urban sprawl, but it's quite a different perspective to read something that was written when that was the reality, not from the point of view of looking back on it.

Coming Up For Air by Orwell is very much like that - you really get this sense of the main character losing his identity as the town he grew up in is swallowed by the sprawl of London. Well worth a bash.