Fiction and Drama About Fleet Street
- George King: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936 film) and the Tim Burton adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film).
- A. N. Wilson: My Name is Legion (2003).
- Amanda Craig: A Vicious Circle (1996) (about a fictitious British newspaper tycoon and the world of publishing in general).
- Michael Wall: Amongst Barbarians (1989) (Similar to Lily d'Abo in My Name Is Legion, a white British working class couple takes money from a tabloid in order to be able to help their son).
- Howard Brenton and David Hare: Pravda (1985) (about a Rupert Murdoch-like character).
- A. N. Wilson: Scandal (1985) (About how a political scandal is created by the tabloid press).
- Michael Frayn: Towards the End of the Morning (1967) (a comic novel about failed and failing journalists in a 1960s newspaper)
- Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (1938) (about a thinly disguised British Newspaper, The Daily Beast, and one of its contributors who is sent to an African country at war called Ishmaelia, based upon the author's experiences in Abyssinia)
- Pete Townshend: "Street in the City" (song)
- The Day The Earth Caught Fire: A 1961 science fiction film, starring Janet Munro and Leo McKern where concurrent Russian and U.S. nuclear tests alter the Earth's orbit, sending it spinning towards the Sun. Much of the impending disaster is seen from the perspective of staff at the Fleet Street office of the Daily Express.
- John Davidson: Fleet Street Eclogues (1893) and A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues (1896).
- Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities: (Setting of the Tellson's Bank is on Fleet Street).
- Charles Dickens: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, more commonly known as The Pickwick Papers (talks about the journalism on Fleet Street).
- The opening sequence of Children of Men is set on Fleet Street. The protagonist, portrayed by Clive Owen, leaves a café which then explodes in an act of terrorism.
Michael Molloy: The Century (1990)
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