West End Chronicles

300 Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London

By: Ed Glinert

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Paperback | 28 July 2008 | Edition Number 1

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From Mayfair to Soho, Shaftescury Avenue to Fitzrovia, the west end has always been the glittering heart of London's social life, lit by cosy cafes, brothels, drinking dens and music venues. But these bright lights have also hidden a world of violence and immorality, a wold familiar to Aleister Crowley and the Mafia.

Ed Glinert looks at the glorious triumphs of West End life - from Rothschild's zebra-drawn coach bringing Piccadilly to a standstill, to the Dorchester's luxurious World War Two bomb shelters, as well as its dark core, concealing nineteenth-century cocaine addicts, murder and vice - each combining to show the famous hub of London in an entirely new way.

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'the most pleasurable guide to the West End since the A-Z' Melanie McGrath, Seven good, gossipy, well-informed ... and Glinert's enthusiasm for the alleys and alleycats ... is infectious Tribune Everyone has their own experiences of the West End and Chronicles rounds up the best of them The Independent on Sunday

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