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 it's eccentric inhabitants.4/5(20). Soho: A History of London's Most Colourful Neighborhood by Judith Summers. I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau by Gary Kemp. Gangland Soho by James Morton. Soho by Keith Waterhouse. Soho Black by Christopher Fowler. Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho by John Brittan. Soho Square: Stories, Essays, Poems, Pictures by Philip Roth. · Keith Waterhouse, author of Soho. Available for everyone, funded by readers Contribute Subscribe ContributeEstimated Reading Time: 2 mins.
1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Billy Liar / The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. by. Keith Waterhouse, Alan Sillitoe, David Elloway (Introduction) really liked it avg rating — 9 ratings — published — 2 editions. Want to Read. Treasure their dilapidated doorways, for they are portals into another world: the Soho of Keith Waterhouse or Julian MacLaren-Ross. Some mornings I'd emerge onto the streets of Soho, find my way. The one cardinal sin here isn't knocking back too many glasses of the Gerry's label red but being boring. Soho-centric novelist Keith Waterhouse's favourite put-down went: "Are you going to say something interesting? Or are you going to fuck off?" Dillion remembers the first time he ever stepped into Gerry's.
His extended style book for the Daily Mirror, Waterhouse on Newspaper Style, is regarded as a classic textbook for modern journalism. This was followed by a pocket book on English usage intended for a wider audience entitled English Our English (And How To Sing It). 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 past and present and of its eccentric inhabitants. Soho Paperback edition by Keith Waterhouse. Keith Waterhouse, a doyen of Soho's former era, depicts it beautifully in this bitter-sweet tale of a naive Northern lad in the Smoke for the first time. Media student Alex Singer has been dumped by his girlfriend, so he hitches a ride from Leeds and goes looking for her This came out about fifteen years ago, when Soho was a very different place.
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