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girlyswot ([personal profile] girlyswot) wrote2009-03-10 09:08 pm
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Cambridge literature

I've been thinking sporadically over the last couple of weeks...

And now I've written that sentence, I really want to end this post there.

...that it would be nice to be reading some Cambridge books while I'm here. I often like to do this - I took The Nine Tailors with me for a memorable holiday in Norfolk; Persuasion when I visited Lyme Regis; one of Bill Bryson's books about America when I was in the US; Outlander in the Highlands and so on. But I've been struggling to come up with any. Which strikes me as odd. I have several very much loved Oxford books - Gaudy Night, The Ready Made Family, The Subtle Knife, and so on.

What am I missing? What would you recommend? Preferably fiction, set at any time within the last 800 years. Though if you have a particularly splendid non-fiction book set in the city that you want to suggest, I'm open to that too.

ETA: Suggestions of Cambridge poems also welcome. The only one I can think of is The Old Vicarage, Grantchester.

Adopt one today!

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
I read One Good Turn before Case Histories. I thought both were excellent - although it isn't quite the Edinburgh I know (despite all the streets being real!) - a bit like Rankine's Rebus in that respect.