What's your favourite city in fiction?

[Rainingstairs]

Rivendell's just a big house.

I like all of the Free Cities in George RR Martin's Ice & Fire series. Particularly Braavos with its canals, courtesan barges, Faceless Men and gaudily dressed swordfighters.

eh! it's my imagination and i says it's a city

 

[Dolly Dimple]

Glasgow, as in James Kelman, Janice Galloway, AL Kennedy, etc x 1000. Which is stupid as I grew up there, couldn't wait to get away from the place and start feeling claustrophobic the second I get off the train at Central. Glasgow in novels is a much more interesting place, but.

 

[Balbi]

Edinburgh in the Rebus books.