Slang lexicographer extraordinaire Jonathon Green joins John and Andy in this episode to discuss Absolute Beginners, the classic novel of London teenage life set around Soho and Notting Hill.

Books Mentioned:

• Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

• Jonathan Green - Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Days In the Life: Voices from the English Underground, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, Odd Job Man: Some Confessions of a Slang Lexicographer

• Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners, The London Novels, Platform, City of Spades

• Paul Kingsnorth - Beast, The Wake

• Cormac McCarthy - The Road

• Derek Raymond - The Crust on its Uppers

• Tony Gould - Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin MacInnes

• Dominic Sandbrook - Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

Other Links:

• Mister Slang

• The Blue Lamp

• 1986 Film adaptation

• Hubert Selby Jr

• Quadrophenia

• Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

• Raymond Chandler