Tales from Soho
- Authors
- Barry, David
- Publisher
- Acorn Books
- Tags
- dylan thomas , 2i's coffe bar , fitzrovia , artist's model , great war poets , rock 'n' roll , coffee bars , skiffle , tom jones , moss bros , music hall , phone sex , john snow , the beatles , lookalikes , richard nixon , carnaby street , london palladium , gambling , joe meek , spieler , prostitution , pimps , greek street , french house , soho pubs , colony room , madonna lookalike
- ISBN
- 9781783338900
- Date
- 2014-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.11 MB
- Lang
- en
Tales from Soho, eleven entertaining stories from London's famous square mile. Known as a red-light district, with a reputation for sleaze and crime, Soho is also a diverse district, a bohemian area which has been an adult playground for hundreds of years. In these stories you will meet countless motley characters over many decades. In 'The Poet in Soho' a famous Welsh writer goes on a Soho pub odyssey; and in 'The Spieler' a young actor risks a reckoning when he works in an illegal gambling den; as does one of Soho's duckers-and-divers in 'Ronnie's Manor'. From pimp and prostitute to a rock 'n' roll band at a Carnaby Street seance, Soho and its colourful characters comes alive over the years with this collection of earthy tales. The collection also contains a brief history of the district and some of its famous pubs.