Soho - Tapa blanda

A timely reminder of how good a storyteller he is. * Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday * highly entertaining. Rather like a night out in Soho. With its breakneck pacing and kinetic characters, SOHO captures the ever- morphing nature of the area. A treat for sore brains He can be angrily oratorical, bluntly rude, soberly informative, boozily clownish, but cannot stop being very, very funny Keith Waterhouse's satire of London life is pin-sharp and teeming with gloriously reprehensible characters. He is one of Britain's finest journalists. SOHO is a timely reminder of how good a storyteller he is. * Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday * Waterhouse uses Alex's saucer-eyed awareness of "So-oh's" otherness to take the reader on a wistful and gently amusing trawl through the area. Even episodes of sexual perversion and murder are recounted with a deft lightness of touch, though a metropolitan cynicism lurks on the peripheries of this entertaining farce. * Chris Power, The Times * You stay gripped from the opening paragraph ... It crackles with insight about the nature of sexual obsession His comic evocation of place and people and his humane descriptions of Soho's lowlife bring the present and the past effortlessly together. * Claire Allfree, Metro * Quite easily the wittiest and best chronicler of contemporary life

No London neighbourhood more resembles the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho, and into this human rabbit warren one evening slips Alex Singer, a student from Leeds in pursuit of his errant girlfriend. 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.