Across the decades the capital has inspired potboilers and sizzling romances, but it was not until the 1980s, when London was booming again, that the city itself returned to centre stage.

数十年内，围绕伦敦编就的蹩脚小说层出不穷，风流传奇泛滥成灾，但伦敦本身真正重回到镁光灯下，还是在20世纪80年代这座城市重振旗鼓之后。