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ISBN: 1901982467
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Price: £5.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 302pp
Rights: World
Pub. Date: May 2000

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anthony Frewin was born in London and lives in Hertfordshire. He was assistant film director to Stanley Kubrick for over 20 years. He has written two other novels published by No Exit Press, Sixty-Three Closure and Scorpian Rising.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The chance discovery of a 30 year old blue movie leads back to the film's maker, Tim Purdom, and the London of the late fifties and early sixties. Purdom was a pioneer of the B&W British porno film and a figure on the periphery of the Profumo sex scandal. He directed eight films...but who was directing him and what was their hidden agenda? And where is Tim now?

London Blues explicitly and unremittingly details the hidden world of Soho vice and London's demi-monde at the time when the grey 1950s were giving way to the 'swingin' sixties'. It is a dramatic and compelling venture into the secret history of our time - a provocative and totally original novel.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...A fascinating and compulsive portrait of London before it began swinging. a risk-taking, formula defying book..." - Melody Maker

"...The quintessential Soho book..." - Loaded

"...Fifties atmosphere, powerfully evoked..." - Literary Review

"...A forceful, striking thriller..." - Time Out

"...A love letter to a sexual age that was both abundant and naïve..." - Esquire

"...London Blues is visual in a way few books are - the eye of the narrator is like a camera lens, panning across the lost London of memory..." - Peter Dillon-Parkin, Crime Time

"...What a gripping tour de force is Anthony Frewin's London Blues!..." - Terence Strong, Tangled Web