Absolute Beginners: Restless

By Colin MacInnes. Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. Joel MacCormack reads the 20th-century novelist's cult classic about youth culture and racial tension in 1950s London, where a teenage narrator scours the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill for the stylish and the subversive, while a generation of black immigrants struggled to make a decent life for themselves