Soho - Softcover

In a long and highly successful career, Keith Waterhouse has published thirteen novels, including Billy Liar (which has been filmed and staged) and Our Song (also staged), seven non-fiction books and seven collections of journalism. He has written widely for television, cinema and the theatre, including the highly successful play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, and writes an award-winning column for the Daily Mail. He has also published two acclaimed memoirs, City Lights and Streets Ahead.

A timely reminder of how good a storyteller he is. * Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday * highly entertaining. Rather like a night out in Soho. With its breakneck pacing and kinetic characters, SOHO captures the ever- morphing nature of the area. A treat for sore brains He can be angrily oratorical, bluntly rude, soberly informative, boozily clownish, but cannot stop being very, very funny Keith Waterhouse's satire of London life is pin-sharp and teeming with gloriously reprehensible characters. He is one of Britain's finest journalists. SOHO is a timely reminder of how good a storyteller he is. * Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday * Waterhouse uses Alex's saucer-eyed awareness of "So-oh's" otherness to take the reader on a wistful and gently amusing trawl through the area. Even episodes of sexual perversion and murder are recounted with a deft lightness of touch, though a metropolitan cynicism lurks on the peripheries of this entertaining farce. * Chris Power, The Times * You stay gripped from the opening paragraph ... It crackles with insight about the nature of sexual obsession His comic evocation of place and people and his humane descriptions of Soho's lowlife bring the present and the past effortlessly together. * Claire Allfree, Metro * Quite easily the wittiest and best chronicler of contemporary life