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(COFFIELD) Darren Coffield ~ Tales From The Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia, The Lost Bohemia Of Bacon, Belcher And Board

Author ~ Darren Coffield

Title ~ Tales From The Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia, The Lost Bohemia Of Bacon, Belcher And Board

ISBN ~ 9781783528165

Publisher ~ Unbound

Published ~ 2020

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 427

Format ~  Hardcover 

Condition ~ Used, Very Good

Not price clipped and no inscriptions. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket and slight yellowing of the page block 

Categories ~ #Biography #Arts #Entertainment #Social #Cultural #JamesBond #History #ColonyRoomClub #Soho #MurielBelcher #Journalism #NonFiction #DarrenCoffield #9781783528165

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the closure of London’s most infamous arts establishment, the Colony Room Club in Soho, former member Darren Coffield has written the authorised history of this notorious drinking den. It’s a hair-raising romp through the underbelly of the post-war scene: during its sixty-year history, more romances, more deaths, more horrors and more sex scandals took place in the Colony than anywhere else.

In the regimented and repressed atmosphere of post-war London, the Colony was heroically bohemian, largely thanks to the dominant personality of its owner, Muriel Belcher. Muriel was a combination of muse, mentor, critic and guru to those who gathered around her, just as the Colony provided a home for the confluence of talents that will be forever associated with the artistic circle of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

Tales from the Colony is an oral biography, consisting of previously unpublished and long-lost interviews with the characters who were central to the scene, giving the reader a flavour of what it was like to frequent the Club. With a glass in hand you’ll move through the decades listening to personal reminiscences, opinions and vitriol, from the authentic voices of those who were actually there.

On your voyage through Soho’s lost bohemia, you’ll be served a drink by James Bond, sip champagne with Francis Bacon, queue for the loo with Christine Keeler, go racing with Jeffrey Bernard.

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