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
Kenneth Cope a female nurse as part of his father's attempt to rob a maternity hospital. Once there Cyril finds love with a real nurse. In 1975–76 he wrote three series of the BBC children's television series "Striker", starring the young Kevin Moreton and inspired by the local youth football team in the village of Islip, Oxfordshire, where the Cope family was then living. Cope later appeared in the "Doctor Who" story "Warriors' Gate" (in 1981), and guest starred in four episodes of "Casualty", as well as taking roles in "The Bill", "Waking the Dead", "A Touch of Frost", "Minder" and "Kavanagh