Editing Leicester (section)

===In popular culture===
Leicester is the setting for the fictional diaries of [[Adrian Mole]], created by [[Sue Townsend]]. In the early books he lives in a suburb of Leicester and attends a local school where he first meets "the love of his life", Pandora Braithwaite.

After a period of years spent working in Oxford and London, Mole returns to Leicester and gets a job in a second-hand bookshop and a flat in an "upmarket" development on a swan-infested waterfront, which is a barely disguised representation of the area near to St. Nicholas Circle. Vastly in debt he is forced to move to the fictional village of Mangold Parva. The local (fictional) [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the town of Ashby de la Zouch is his old flame, Pandora Braithwaite.

Leicester is the setting for [[Rod Duncan]]'s novels, the ''Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire'' series and the Riot trilogy.

Leicester and the surrounding county are settings for several [[Graham Joyce]] novels, including ''Dark Sister'', ''The Limits of Enchantment'' and ''[[Some Kind of Fairy Tale]]''.

The Clarendon Park and New Walk areas of the city, along with an unnamed Charnwood village ("vaguely based upon Cossington", according to the author) are some of the settings of the 2014 novel ''The Knot of Isis'' by Chrid McGordon.

Leicester is the setting for the British children book series, ''[[The Sleepover Club]]'', by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami, Lorna Read, Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien, Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter.

Notable feature films made in the city are ''[[The Girl with Brains in Her Feet]]'' (1997), ''[[Jadoo (2013 film)|Jadoo]]'' (2013) and ''[[Yamla Pagla Deewana 2]]'' (2013).