London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien England. And when Montgomery Pew, an Assistant Welfare Officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune from Lagos, the meeting of minds and races takes a surprising turn.

Frankie Love, new to his profession as a ponce, seems to run his illegal life on strictly fair principles. Ted Justice, recently appointed member of the vice squad, finds his upholding of the law complicated by love for his girl ..Love is travestied in the activities of the prostitute, justice mocked in the procedure of the vice squad, as Colin MacInnes writes with an authenticity which only an intimate knowledge of the seamier side of life can deliver.

London, 1958. Smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs. The young and the restless were creating a world as different as they dared from England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records a young teenager's life in the capital - sex, drugs and rock'n'roll; the era of the first race riots and the lead up to the swinging sixties. A twentieth-century cult classic, Absolute Beginners paints a vivid picture of a changing society with insight and sensitivity.

Product Description: Bringing together three of Colin MacInnes’ finest works, this exciting omnibus explores a very different side of London life in the 1950s than is usually portrayed. His characters are colourful and real, painting vivid pictures of areas such as Brixton and Notting Hill at this time...read more

Product Description: Book by Colin MacInnes

Helen Bailey, a faded beauty throws popular parties at her Australian ranch, Cootamundra, while her husband Walter, retreats more and more into depression

Product Description: Book by COLIN MacINNES ; intr TONY GOULD