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London Blues

By: Anthony Frewin
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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The chance discovery of a 30-year-old blue movie leads back to the film's maker, Tim Purdom, and the London of the late fifties and early sixties.

Purdom was a pioneer of the B&W British porno film and a figure on the periphery of the Profumo sex scandal. He directed eight films... but who was directing him and what was their hidden agenda? And where is Tim now?

London Blues explicitly and unremittingly details the hidden world of Soho vice and London's demi-monde at the time when the grey 1950s were giving way to the 'swingin' sixties'. It is a dramatic and compelling venture into the secret history of our time - a provocative and totally original novel.

Anthony Frewin was born in London and lives in Hertfordshire. He was assistant film director to Stanley Kubrick for over 20 years. He has written three novels, London Blues, Sixty-Three Closure and Scorpian Rising.

©1997 Anthony Frewin (P)2013 Audible Ltd Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense England Fiction

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Critic reviews

A forceful, striking thriller...' - Time Out'The quintessential Soho book' - Loaded'Fifties atmosphere, powerfully evoked' - Literary Review'London Blues is visual in a way few books are - the eye of the narrator is like a camera lens, panning across the lost London of memory' - Peter Dillon-Parkin, Crime Time'What a gripping tour de force is Anthony Frewin's London Blues!' - Terence Strong, Tangled Web
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Greatly atmospheric story. Depicted the period really well. The characters were well rounded and believable.

Good period story

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Fantastic performance by Paul Thornley, dishing out a nice tale, albeit with a weak storyline. There’s to many occasions on which it leaves the reader with a “but what of it?” feeling.

great performance

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As an avid listener to audiobooks, I have developed a very critical view, of both story and narration. This book has been very good in both categories. The mix of some fiction and real events doesn’t always work but this really does. You really are transported back to the early 60’s and although some language and racial description is probably not to every wokes taste, I for one think this is a classic example of ‘so what’! It works , and if you are offended - get a fucking life!
Definitely 5 stars all the way. Now searching for others by the same author….and narrator.

Really enjoyed this book…

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Remember some of the incidents as a youngster. It shows just how life has changed in the last 60 years. Would recommend just for the memories created by the narrator and writer.

Remember well

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Quite a unique story line and captures the early 60s from a different perspective.

the narrator, brilliant

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