Cambridge literature

[girlyswot]

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.

Comments

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Kate Atkinson is one of those authors I am always meaning to read but never have. So maybe I should try that first.

Thank you!

[white_hart]

She's very good, although her humour can be very black. In fact, it strikes me that One Good Turn, which I gave up on about a year ago because I just wasn't in the mood, is set in Edinburgh, so perhaps I should take that with me next week.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

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.