The Long Firm
On sale
26th May 2011
Price: £8.99
‘A gangster novel every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it’s set’
Independent on Sunday
”Compulsive reading, powerful writing with an evocative feel for the bleaker side of the Swinging Sixties’
The Times
‘I’ll tell you what happens now,’ Harry says, reading my mind. ‘You can go now. We’re quits. You don’t talk to anybody about anything. You’ve had a taste of what will happen if you do.’
Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and Judy Garland fan. To be in his orbit is to be caught up in the music, the parties, the people and the sex of London in the Swinging Sixties. But behind the rough charm and cheap glamour is a man prepared to do what it takes to get what he wants.
‘Gracefully written, diligently and rewardingly researched, it is both exciting and funny. It takes the cliches of the genre and makes them sexy and freshly interesting’
Observer
‘Truly fascinating . . . Arnott’s ability to powerfully resurrect an era is astonishing’
Guardian
Independent on Sunday
”Compulsive reading, powerful writing with an evocative feel for the bleaker side of the Swinging Sixties’
The Times
‘I’ll tell you what happens now,’ Harry says, reading my mind. ‘You can go now. We’re quits. You don’t talk to anybody about anything. You’ve had a taste of what will happen if you do.’
Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and Judy Garland fan. To be in his orbit is to be caught up in the music, the parties, the people and the sex of London in the Swinging Sixties. But behind the rough charm and cheap glamour is a man prepared to do what it takes to get what he wants.
‘Gracefully written, diligently and rewardingly researched, it is both exciting and funny. It takes the cliches of the genre and makes them sexy and freshly interesting’
Observer
‘Truly fascinating . . . Arnott’s ability to powerfully resurrect an era is astonishing’
Guardian
Reviews
Truly fascinating ... Arnott's ability to powerfully resurrect an era is astonishing
One of the smartest, funniest and original novels you will read all year ... Arnott is quite brilliant at excavating the cultural minutiae of the time to bring the period vividly to life
Compulsive reading, powerful writing with an evocative feel for the bleaker side of the Swinging Sixties
Gripping ... slumming it doesn't get much better than this
Jake Arnott has created a gangster story every bit as cool, stylish and venomous as the London in which it is set, an English original as sharp and lethal as a Saville Row lapel
Pulp Fiction so polished as to be immaculate
The powerful, stylish writing hooks the reader from the first page. One of the most impressive first novels I've read in years.
