The Private World of St.John Terrapin

A work of fiction which purports to cover the life of St John Terrapin, and what he heard during his years spent at the Cafe Royal of London. It is an absorbing description of the gallery of glittering celebrities stretching over sixty-five years: writers from Oscar Wilde to D.H. Lawrence; painters from James MacNeil Whistler to Augustus John; journalists from Frank Harris to Hannen Swaffer; fascinating ladies from Lillie Langtry to Virginia Woolf; and bizarre individuals such as the 'Beast' Aleister Crowley, and the arch-joker Horace Cole.dies from Lillie Langtry to Virginia Woolf; and bizarre individuals suh as the 'Beast' Aleister Crowley, and the arch-joker Horace Cole.


Genre: Literary Fiction