I mentioned in the October/November edition that the beer writer and broadcaster Johnny Homer had passed away at the tragically young age of 56. Latterly he had been working for Shepherd Neame. His eighth and final book has now been published posthumously and I thought that readers might be interested in it, although it is not directly beer or pub oriented. It is an A to Z of Soho and Fitzrovia. The introduction says, ‘From Karl Marx to Mozart, Casanova to Jimi Hendrix, the inventor of television to the man who introduced the espresso machine into England, A-Z of Soho and Fitzrovia offers an irreverent insight into two of London’s most vibrant and bohemian neighbourhoods’.
It is published by Amberley Books and is available online from the publisher. Price £15.99