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The northern section between Cambridge Circus and Oxford Street includes more generalist bookshops such as the venerable Foyles and Blackwell's.

A long-standing correspondence between New York based author Helene Hanff and the staff of a bookstore on the street, Marks & Co., was the inspiration for the book 84 Charing Cross Road ( 1970 ).

The book was made into a 1986 film with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins and also into a play and a BBC radio drama.

84 Charing Cross Road, located just north of Cambridge Circus, has not been a bookstore for many years ; at street level it is now a restaurant ( entered round the corner in Cambridge Circus ), but the upper levels of the building remain as originally constructed.

A small brass plaque, noted by Hanff in her book " Q's Lecacy ", remains on the stone pilaster facing Charing Cross Road.