Books set in River Thames

London hospital and new life

Brick Lane (East End)

central murder site, Hawksmoor church

Street where Scrooge's counting house stood, beneath a church bell tower; scholars place it at Newman's Court opposite S

the Gardiners' home in Cheapside, London

South East London

Target of the bombing plot at the novel's climax

1980s South East London — where Vietnamese siblings rebuild their lives after fleeing the war

Marshalsea debtors prison

Quinn's base in the East End

Basis for the opium den where St Clair is found

Whitechapel, Victorian East London — where five women lived and were murdered by Jack the Ripper in 1888

East London district featured in the novel's London-set chapters

frame narrative aboard Nellie

opening scene and recurring setting

narrator parish during plague

opium dens Dorian visits in the East End

Thomas arrives here

Boleyn trial and execution