Tales from Soho - Special Edition
By David Barry
ISBN: 9781837919543
This is David Barry’s Tales from Soho, eighteen entertaining stories set in London’s other square mile. Within the stories live countless motley characters who have inhabited or frequented the area over the decades. In The Poet in Soho, we follow a famous Welsh writer on odyssey through a number of famous pubs; in The Spieler, a young actor risks a reckoning when he finds himself working in an illegal gambling den – as does an unscrupulous ducker-and-diver in Ronnie’s Manor.
Known as a red-light district with a reputation for sleaze and crime, Soho is also a diverse area, a bohemian location which has been an adult playground for hundreds of years.
This is David Barry’s Tales from Soho, eighteen entertaining stories set in London’s other square mile. Within the stories live countless motley characters who have inhabited or frequented the area over the decades. In The Poet in Soho, we follow a famous Welsh writer on odyssey through a number of famous pubs; in The Spieler, a young actor risks a reckoning when he finds himself working in an illegal gambling den – as does an unscrupulous ducker-and-diver in Ronnie’s Manor.
From pimp and prostitute to a rock ‘n’ roll band at a Carnaby Street séance, David Barry skilfully makes Soho and its colourful characters come alive on the pages of this collection of earthy tales. This special hardback edition not only contains colour photographs (taken by the author himself) of locations relevant to the stories, but also a brief history of the district and some of its more famous pubs.
This excellent anthology will make a fantastic addition to the bookshelves of fans of tales with a twist, those into dark comedy, and London-lovers alike.
About the Author
David Barry is the pseudonym of Meurig Jones, and he was born in Bangor, North Wales. He attended Corona Academy Stage School in Chiswick, London, from the age of 12. As a child actor he worked with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in “Titus Andronicus”, touring Europe in 1957. Also, as a teenager, filmed with Tyrone Power, and worked on stage with Paul Scofield. In his early 20s he played Frankie Abbott in “Please, Sir!” and “Fenn Street Gang”, at which time he wrote his first broadcast script. He also wrote “Keep It in The Family” for Thames TV (3 episodes). His novels include “Each Man Kills”, “Willie the Actor”, “The Ice Cream Time Machine”, “Careless Talk”, “More Careless Talk”, “Muscle”, “A Deadly Diversion” and Walking Shadows”. He has also published a book of short stories “Tales from Soho”.
His favourite authors are Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck and many thriller writers, including Michael Connelly, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Raymond Chandler, James Lee Burke.
