Soho in the Fifties and Sixties

Ronnie Scott's, the French Pub, the Coach and Horses; just a few of the names that are synonymous with Soho, London's bohemian quarter.

With its pubs and clubs, coffee houses and strip joints, Soho has been attracting the rich, the poor, the famous and infamous, the gifted and the deluded for decades. Yet it is perhaps the nineteen-fifties and sixties that bore witness to its heyday, when the likes of Francis Bacon, Dylan Thomas, Brendan Behan and Colin MacInnes staggered from pub to club, fuelled by the hedonistic atmosphere that continues to characterise Soho today.

Highly readable, Jonathan Fryer's lively account of the lives of the men and women who made Soho their home from home is a fascinating insight into a world of excess, where casualties were high and only the most determined fulfilled their promise.Praise for Soho in the Fifties and Sixties: 'Jonathan Fryer's text admirably captures the portrait of an age that will probably never be seen again. Even if we weren't there in Soho in the 1950s and 1960s, he conjures up the feeling and atmosphere of the place from the characters who lived through it' - Goodreads review

Jonathan Fryer is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster whose books include The Great Wall of China (1975), Isherwood (1977; updated and re-published as Eye of the Camera, 1993), Food for Thought (1981), Nine Lives of Dylan Thomas (1993) and André and Oscar(1997).

Author: Jonathan Fryer
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 03/23/2023
Pages: 76
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.16d
ISBN: 9798387035036

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