Tales from the Colony Room'Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outrageous stories' Sunday Times 'Riveting An elegy to that vanished world where people talked to each other and not just their mobile phones' Daily Mail 'The escapist read I needed' Guardian 'Wonderfully evocative' TLS This is the definitive history of London's most notorious drinking den, the Colony Room Club in