The London mayor – ok, the former London mayor – David P. rolls out one of the great London stories. Dickens and London: Dickens’ life and London and Dickens’ novels and London. It’s a splendid introduction to a great subject. Got the rich particularity of every Dickens novel and of any London Walk worth its salt. Its impressive figures, for example: over 100 London locations in, say, Pickwick Papers.