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NICK RENNISON MARKETING & SALES POINTS for Fans of BBC Four's How to Be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell BOHEMIAN LONDON NICK RENNISON MARKETING & SALES POINTS For fans of BBC Four's How to be Bohemian with Victoria Coren Mitchell Large and enduring interest in the gamier side of the capital's past and the fascination with Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, Robert Greene, Dante Gabriel Rossetti et al show no sign of abating Packed full of controversial characters and outrageous behaviour of immense appeal to anyone interested in the lost art of louche living Provides a key historical perspective to the alternatives to bourgeois culture - appealing to those interested in history and alternative culture Author is a reviewer for the Sunday Times and British History Magazine Bohemian London launch event Download high resolution image THE BOOK London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of Pub. Date: 23 November 2017 respectable society. For close to two centuries, these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been Price: £12.99 called Bohemians. ISBN: 978-1-90404-830-5 Binding: PP This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide to its more colourful inhabitants. Format: Demy (216 x 135mm) Rossetti and Swinburne, defying the morality of high Victorian England. Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley in Extent: 224 the decadent 1890s. The Bloomsburyites and the Bright Young Things. Dylan Thomas, boozing in the Blitz, Weight: 370g and Francis Bacon and his cronies, wasting time and getting wasted in 1950s Soho. Publishing World Rights: It's also a guide to the places where Bohemia has flourished. The legendary Café Royal, a home from home to Sales World artists and writers for nearly a century. The Cave of the Golden Calf, a WW1 nightclub run by the Swedish Rights: playwright August Strindberg's widow, The Colony Room, the infamous drinking den presided over by the Market: History, Social History gloriously foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher, and the Gargoyle Club in Dean Street where the artistic avant-garde BIC Code: HBJD1: British & Irish history JFCA: Popular culture mixed with upper-crust eccentrics. The pubs of Fitzrovia where the painters Augustus John and Nina Hamnett HBTB: Social & cultural history 1DBKESL: London, Greater London rubbed shoulders with the occultist Aleister Crowley and the short-story writer Julian Maclaren-Ross, wearing BISAC Code: HIS015000: History : Europe : Great Britain mirror sunglasses and clutching a silver-topped Malacca cane, held court for his acolytes and admirers. HIS054000: History : Social History TRV009070: Travel : Europe : Great Britain 1DDU-GB-ES: The story of Bohemian London is one of drink and drugs, sex and death, excess and indulgence. It's also a THEMA Code: JBCC3: Cultural studies: fashion & society story of achievement and success. Some of the finest art and literature of the last two centuries has emerged JBCC1: Popular culture WQH: Local history from Bohemia. Nick Rennison's book provides a lively and enjoyable portrait of the world in which Bohemian NHTB: Social & cultural history Londoners once lived. 1DDU-GB-ES: South & South East England Country of UK Manufacture: PRAISE FOR NICK RENNISON Rpt. Code: IP 'An intriguing anthology' - (Rivals of Sherlock Holmes), Mail on Sunday Marketing & PR 'If you know nothing about the story of Robin Hood or want to know more about how the story has Tel: 01582 766 348 [email protected] evolved over the centuries, this book is for you' - (Robin Hood), We Love This Book Oldcastle Books UK Distribution: Turnaround 'These 15 sanguinary spinetinglers deliver delicious chills' - (Rivals of Dracula), Independent Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd NICK RENNISON (Location: Stockport, UK) Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 www.turnaround-uk.com Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He has written several Pocket Essential guides oldcastlebooks.co.uk/ published by Oldcastle Books including A Short History of Polar Exploration, Roget, oldcastlebooks.co.uk/bohemianlondon Freud and Robin Hood. He is the editor of three ninteenth-century short story 2 anthologies for No Exit Press: The Rivals of Sherlock, The Rivals of Dracula and Supernatural Sherlocks. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His debut crime novel, Carver’s Quest, set in nineteenth century London, was published by Atlantic Books. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine and is a consulting editor at South Downs Crime & Mystery. OTHER TITLES BY NICK RENNISON Freud and Psychoanalysis Peter Mark Roget A Pocket Essential Short History The Rivals of Dracula currently ebook only available currently ebook only available of Polar Exploration 978-1-84344-632-3 978-1-84344-090-1 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Supernatural Sherlocks Robin Hood More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 978-1-84344-737-5 978-1-84344-975-1 978-0-85730-326-4 978-0-85730-260-1 Sherlock's Sisters American Sherlocks 1922 978-0-85730-398-1 978-0-85730-439-1 978-0-85730-501-5 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).
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