Baron's Court, All Change

Baron's Court, All Change is the Holy Grail of hipster novels.

Terry Taylor's book documents one summer in the life of an unnamed sixteen year-old narrator. Leaving home and his job he dabbles in spiritualism, is seduced by an older woman and gets rich quick from drug dealing. This is a world of sharp suits, jazz, kicks, "spades", nightclubs and sex. A London that is already swinging half a decade before the rest of the world catches on.

Terry Taylor (1933-2014) was the much younger lover of ...