Having very recently read Scamp, the first novel by Roland Camberton, and filled by enthusiasm for that book, I got hold of this, his only one other book before giving up writing. Rain On The Pavements, first published in 1951, was - likeScamp - also republished by Five Leaves (via their New London ...
Scamp is another of those classic London novels from the 1950s that evokes Julian Maclaren-Ross, Patrick Hamilton, Norman Collins, Samuel Selvon and so on. It makes a brilliant companion piece to Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson. The back streets of Soho and the West End are brought vividly to life an...