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If you can’t buy it in London, you may well have trouble finding it anywhere. The difficulty is knowing where to begin. A very broad summary of the shopping areas in London goes like this: Oxford Street and Regent Street for Selfridges, Hamleys, other department stores and big brands; Tottenham Court Road for computers and electronics; Charing Cross Road and Bloomsbury for books new and secondhand; Soho and Carnaby Street for urban streetwear and style accessories; Covent Garden for clothes, new and second-hand, specialist foods and gifts; Bond Street and Mayfair for high fashion and expensive jewellery; St James’s for bespoke boots, hats and wine; Clerkenwell for crafts and independent designers; Knightsbridge for more high fashion and Harrods; and Chelsea or Notting Hill for one-off, independent fashion, music, gift and book retailers. And then there are the markets, some of them the most evocative of the spirit of the city: Brick Lane for just about everything; Portobello Road, Bermondsey and Alfie’s for antiques and bric-a-brac; and Camden at the weekend for furniture, gifts, clothes, accessories and general mayhem.
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