Seventy Years in a Colourful Trade
Andrew O’Hagan: The Soho Alphabet, 16 July 2020
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia
by Darren Coffield.
Unbound, 364 pp., £25, April 2020,978 1 78352 816 5 Show More
by Darren Coffield.
Unbound, 364 pp., £25, April 2020,
“... The Room. ‘It was the alcoholics’ paradise,’ Barry Humphries writes in his introduction to Darren Coffield’s entertaining book.You merely ran up a slate. Later, much later, came the reckoning, but you never knew how they arrived at the astronomical total, and alkies like to pay more anyhow. It’s our reward and our punishment. When they called ... ”
