Tulse Hill not otherwise found growing in London. Samson Young, protagonist in Martin Amis's "London Fields" goes to Tulse Hill to buy drugs. Jason Strugnell, a fictional poet in Wendy Cope's "Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis", lives in Tulse Hill and mentions it a couple of times in "his" poems. The "Tulse Hill Parliament", a political club, features in P. G. Wodehouse's comic novel "Psmith in the City". The author attended Dulwich College, which is in the vicinity. Noel Streatfeild's novel ""Tennis Shoes"" (1937) is written about a family who live in Tulse Hill. Tulse Hill and its surrounding areas are locations
Wendy Saddington heavy drinker "I honestly think if I had gone on with that, it would have ended up like Janis Joplin. Too fast; not good enough; too soon, you know, bang". In March 2013 she was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, Wendy Saddington died on 21 June 2013, aged 63. Wendy Saddington Wendy June Saddington also known as Gandharvika Dasi (26 September 194921 June 2013) was an Australian blues, soul and jazz singer, and was in the bands Chain, Copperwine and the Wendy Saddington Band. She wrote for teen pop newspaper "Go-Set" from September 1969 to September 1970 as an agony aunt