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Soho

Dan Cruickshank

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History of architecture, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), History, British & Irish history

A tour de force from the author of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and Billy Liar.

No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho. Ask the people who live there, like Christine Yardley, drag queen by night and grey-suited accountant by day; or Len Gates, self-appointed Soho historian and bore; or Jenny Wise, former starlet and now resident lush in the New Kismet club; or even Ellis Hugo Bell, wannabe film producer who dreams of moving to LA. Daily, nightly, shift by shift, their numbers are swelled by immigrants flocking to work, eat, drink and loiter, from kitchen staff to dress designers, hookers to pushers to punters.

Down into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant girlfriend, whose search takes him from club to pub and into contact with a rich cross-section of Soho life. Twenty-four hours, three deaths, one fire and one mugging later, seduced, traduced and befriended, Alex is on his way to the Soho Ball.

In this fast, funny and superbly crafted novel, Keith Waterhouse draws a vibrant portrait of London's liveliest quarter and its eccentric inhabitants.

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Praise for Soho

  • Pin-sharp and teeming with gloriously reprehensible characters - Mail on Sunday

  • The work of a master - The Sunday Times

  • Effortlessly brilliant . . . a comedy of London life which tastes as fresh as a new-baked croissant - Sunday Telegraph

  • Waterhouse . . . at his most entertaining and mischievous - Daily Express

  • As well as being a fast-paced farce, a string of encounters and incidents that could keep a full pub of people entertained for several evenings on end, [it] is an elegy to a vanishing world. Soho the place may not be quite what it was, but in Soho the novel, Waterhouse brings it vibrantly to life - Glasgow Herald

  • A wonderful evocation of a part of London the author loves and he has succeeded superbly in capturing its sleazy yet alluring nature - Tribune

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Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank is a regular presenter on the BBC best known for his popular BBC Two series THE BEST BUILDINGS OF BRITAIN and WHAT THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION DID FOR US. He is one of Britain's leading architectural and historic building experts.

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