London Novels Series by Michael Moorcock

Three hospital outpatients all find that they hear voices - the voices of London's past. As they explore the city of their present day, they also explore its recent past and its forgotten people. Through the lives of those on the fringe of society, we learn what it is like - and what it has always been like - to live in the great, sprawling, polyphonic, multicoloured capital.

Denny Dover is now out of work and moving to the wastes of Skerring to lick his wounds. A former rock star and existential maverick, this East End lad-made-good lived it up with the best. But his childhood friend Sir John Barbican-Begg (deceased, allegedly) is resurrecting events from the past.