Editing London Library (section)

===Literature===
* [[Aldous Huxley]]'s comic novel ''[[Antic Hay]]'' (1923) includes scenes set in and around the library.
* In "[[The Adventure of the Illustrious Client]]", a [[Sherlock Holmes]] short story by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] (published in 1924 but set in 1902), [[Dr. Watson]] visits the Library in order to gain sufficient expertise to pose as an authority on [[Chinese ceramics|Chinese pottery]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Sir Arthur |last=Conan Doyle |chapter=The Illustrious Client |title=Sherlock Holmes: the Complete Short Stories |publisher=John Murray |place=London |year=1928 |page=1108 }}</ref>
* In [[Roy Fuller]]'s ''The Second Curtain'' (1953), part of the plot turns on the Library's system of recording loans, and the bookstacks are the setting for a chase scene.<ref>Grindea 1978, pp. 35, 65.</ref>
* In [[Ian Fleming]]'s ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' (1963), [[James Bond]] borrows a copy of [[Bernard Burke|Burke]]'s ''General Armory'' from the Library in order to pose as a representative of the [[College of Arms]].
* [[A. S. Byatt]]'s novel ''[[Possession (Byatt novel)|Possession]]'' (1990) opens with the discovery of a Victorian letter hidden within the pages of a rare book in the Library.
* In [[Michael Frayn]]'s novel ''[[Headlong (Frayn novel)|Headlong]]'' (1999), the protagonist carries out research at the Library in order to establish whether or not the painting at the centre of the plot is truly by [[Pieter Brueghel the Elder|Brueghel]].
* In the continuation of the detective stories of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] by [[Jill Paton Walsh]], Lady Peter Wimsey (the writer [[Harriet Vane]]) uses the Library to research her study of [[Sheridan Le Fanu]].
* In [[Alan Bennett]]'s novella ''[[The Uncommon Reader]]'' (2007), the Library supplies books on loan to Queen [[Elizabeth II]].
* In [[Sebastian Faulks]]'s novel ''Where My Heart Used to Beat'' (2015), the protagonist, Dr Hendricks, obtains key information about his host from a book posted to him in Paris by the Library.