Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about Soho. Much historical material is also available on-line and a link to the extensive and richly documented British History Online web-site is included here. We will endeavour to keep this section updated.
 
Books added to this list in November 2009: Naked Jungle - Soho Stripped Bare.
 
Our thanks for additional information go to: Maurice Poole.

An Indiscreet Guide to Soho

AUTHOR: Stanley Jackson
PUBLISHER: Muse Arts, 48 South Molton Street, London W1.
DATE: estimated about 1946
ISBN: n/a
DESCRIPTION: hardback, 135 pages, plus book catalogue.

Billy Hill - Godfather of London

AUTHOR: Wensley Clarkson
PUBLISHER: Pennant Books
DATE:
ISBN-10: 1906015430, ISBN-13: 978-1906015435
DESCRIPTION: Paperback, 288 pages
COMMENT:

Bloomsbury, Fitzrovia and Soho

AUTHOR: Roger Hudson, Joe Whitlock Blundell
PUBLISHER: Haggerston Press, 38 Kensington Place, London W8 7PR
DATE: 1996
ISBN: 1-869812-14-X
DESCRIPTION:

Britain in Old Photographs - Westminster

AUTHOR: Jill Barber
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing, Phoenix Mill, Stroud, Gloucs. GL5 2BU
DATE: 1998
ISBN: 0-7509-1721-0
DESCRIPTION: paperback, 128 pages, index.

British History Online

Survey of London List of Volumes
 
VOLUMES 31 and 32: St James, Westminster, Part 2: The parish, between Piccadilly and Oxford Street. Includes streets in Soho, Golden Square, some history of the Piccadilly Circus area, and the formation of Shaftesbury Avenue. The history of James Wyatt's Pantheon, of 1772 (on the south side of Oxford Street), is also given. Rebuilding of the Regent Street Quadrant in 1905-28.
 
VOLUMES 33 and 34: St. Anne, Soho: the most famous of London's cosmopolitan quarters as defined largely by Wardour Street, Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, and includes Soho Square, Leicester Square, and part of Cambridge Circus. Many of the streets here were first built up in the late 17th century under the building speculators Dr Nicholas Barbon and Richard Frith. Some Georgian houses are described and illustrated, e.g. No.1 Greek Street and No.76 Dean Street.

The Capital Companion - A Street-by-Street Guide to London and Its Inhabitants

AUTHOR: Peter Gibson (c)1985
PUBLISHER: Webb & Bower, Exeter, Devon EX2 4BY, U.K.
DATE: 1985
ISBN: 0-86350-042-0
DESCRIPTION: Contains details of more than 780 people and nearly 400 streets (1,500 addresses). Hardback, 446 pages.

Covent Garden and Soho - The Illustrated A-Z historical guide

AUTHORS: Richard and Sheila Tames
PUBLISHER: Historical Publications Ltd.
PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009
ISBN: 978-1-905286-31-7
DESCRIPTION: Softback with flap covers. 230mm H x 192mm W. 192 pages. A-Z format. 212 illustrations (78 colour). Subject index.

Dirty White Boy - Tales of Soho

AUTHOR: Clayton Littlewood
PUBLISHER: Cleis Press
DATE: 2008
ISBN:
DESCRIPTION: a review published in The Soho Clarion

Dog Days In Soho

AUTHOR: Nigel Richardson
PUBLISHER:
DATE:
ISBN:
DESCRIPTION:

The Faber Book of London

EDITOR: A.N. Wilson
PUBLISHER:
DATE:
ISBN: 0-571-17174-5
DESCRIPTION: paperback, 493 pages, bibliography, authors, index

Gangland Bosses - The Lives of Jack Spot and Billy Hill

AUTHORS: James Morton and Gerry Parker
PUBLISHER: Time Warner Paperbacks
DATE: 2005
ISBN-10: 0751533203, ISBN-13: 978-0751533200
DESCRIPTION: Paperback, 384 pages
COMMENT:

Goodbye London - An Illustrated Guide to Threatened Buildings

AUTHOR: Christopher Booker and Candida Lycett Green
PUBLISHER: Fontana
DATE: 1973
ISBN: 0-00-633216-1
DESCRIPTION: See pages 55 - 63

Hit 'em Hard - Jack Spot, King of the Underworld

AUTHOR: Wensley Clarkson
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Entertainment
DATE: 2002
ISBN-10: 0007124406, ISBN-13: 978-0007124404
DESCRIPTION: Hardcover, 305 pages
COMMENT:

The Last Lamplighter: A Soho Education

AUTHOR: Stephen Fothergill
PUBLISHER: London Magazine Editions
DATE: May 2000
ISBN-10: 0904388832, ISBN-13: 978-0904388831
DESCRIPTION: 152 pages. Hardback.
CONTENT: "The Last Lamplighter" describes life in Soho during the 1940s and 1950s.

Living Through the Blitz

AUTHOR: Tom Harrison
PUBLISHER: Penguin
DATE: 1990
ISBN: 0-14-013236-8
DESCRIPTION: Comment within pages 61-132

Living Up West - Jewish Life in London's West End

AUTHOR: Gerry Black
PUBLISHER: The London Museum Of Jewish Life
DATE: 1994
ISBN: 0-9511-613-6-9
DESCRIPTION: paperback, 336 pages, bibliography, glossary, index.

London

AUTHOR: Mrs Robert Henrey
PUBLISHER: J.M. Dent & Co., London
DATE: 1955
ISBN: n/a
DESCRIPTION: hardback, 290 pages. See various pages about Soho

London

AUTHOR: A.R. Hope Moncrieff
PUBLISHER: A & C Black, Soho Square, London W1
DATE: 1929
ISBN: n/a/
DESCRIPTION: hardback, 267 pages, index. See various pages about Soho

London

AUTHOR: Edward Rutherfurd (...furd=correct spelling)
PUBLISHER: Arrow Books
DATE: 1998
ISBN: 0-09-920191-7
DESCRIPTION: historical novel, paperback, 1302 pages

London Marches On

AUTHOR: Harold P. Clunn
PUBLISHER: The Caen Press, Temple Avenue, EC4
DATE: 1947
ISBN: n/a
DESCRIPTION: hardback, 247 pages, index. See various pages listed in index

Metropolitan Myths - The Private Lives of London People

AUTHOR: Glenys Roberts
PUBLISHER: Libri Mundi, London
DATE: 1989
ISBN: 1-872037-00-3
DESCRIPTION: paperback, 176 pages, see chapter 16, Soho.

Naked Jungle - Soho Stripped Bare

AUTHOR: Murray Goldstein
PUBLISHER: Silverback Press
DATE: 2005
ISBN-10: 0954944402, ISBN-13: 978-0954944407
DESCRIPTION: Paperback

One Of The Boys

AUTHOR: Beatrix von Watzdorf
PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch
DATE:
ISBN: 0-233-98925-0
DESCRIPTION: hardback, xix + 215 pages
CONTENT: Reminiscences of being on stage and back-stage at Madame Jo-Jo's.

The Romance of Soho - Being an Account of the District, its Past Distinguished Inhabitants, its Historic Houses, and its Place in the Social Annals of London

AUTHOR: E. Beresford Chancellor
PUBLISHER: Country Life, London
DATE: 1931
ISBN: n/a
DESCRIPTION: 276 pages, index

Secrets of the 43 Club

AUTHOR: Mrs Meyrick
PUBLISHER:
DATE: 1933
ISBN:
DESCRIPTION: The 43 Club was located at no.43 Gerrard Street, W1.

Shutting Up Shop: The Decline of the Traditional Small Shop

AUTHOR: John Londei
PUBLISHER: Dewi Lewis Publishing
DATE: 2007
ISBN-10: 1904587461, ISBN-13: 978 1904587460
DESCRIPTION: Hardback, 144 pages
COMMENT: We have not seen the contents of this book, photographs depicting the demise of sixty small shops in various parts of the U.K., and there may possibly be no direct reference to Soho. The book's subject however alludes to the loss of many small shops in Soho over many decades.

Skin Deep In Soho

AUTHOR: Richard Wortley
PUBLISHER: Jarrolds Publishers [London] Ltd
DATE: 1969
ISBN:
DESCRIPTION:

Soho

AUTHOR: Simon Lewis
PUBLISHER: Rich & Cowan, London
DATE: 1952
ISBN: n/a
DESCRIPTION: 207 pages, index. Much historical description, earlier centuries.

Soho - A History of London's Most Colourful Neighborhood

AUTHOR: Judith Summers
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 2 Soho Square, W1V 5DE.
DATE: 1989
ISBN: 0-7475-0384-2
DESCRIPTION: 244 pages, bibliography, index.

A Soho Address

AUTHOR: Chaim Lewis
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz
DATE: 1965
ISBN: n/a
DESCRIPTION: Biographical story by Soho resident

Soho Cooking

AUTHOR: Alastair Little (Soho restauranteur)
PUBLISHER: Ebury Press, London SW1V 2SA
DATE: 1999
ISBN: 0-09-186422-4
DESCRIPTION:hardback, 256 pages, index. Recipes, social and historical commentaries.

The Soho Don - Gangland's Greatest Untold Story

AUTHOR: Michael Connor
PUBLISHER: Mainstream Publishing
DATE: 2003
ISBN-10: 1840187816, ISBN-13: 978-1840187816
DESCRIPTION: Paperback, 224 pages
COMMENT: About Billy Howard who dominated the Soho, Mayfair and Brighton underworlds for 30 years. Died 1984.

Soho In The Fifties

AUTHOR: Daniel Farson
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8
DATE: 1987
ISBN: 0-7181-2876-1
DESCRIPTION: 192 pages, index.

Soho, or Alex in Wonderland

AUTHOR: Keith Waterhouse
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton
DATE: 2001
ISBN: 0-340-76660-3
DESCRIPTION: a novel, 245 pages

Soho Night and Day

AUTHORS: Frank Norman and Jeffrey Bernard
PUBLISHER: Martin Secker & Warberg Ltd., London
DATE: 1966
ISBN:
DESCRIPTION: Details of people and places in Soho.

Soho Past

AUTHOR: Richard Tames
PUBLISHER: Historical Publications, 32 Ellington Street, N7 8PL
DATE: 1994
ISBN: 0-948667-26-5
DESCRIPTION: 144 pages, bibliography, index

Soho Society

AUTHOR: Bernie Katz
PUBLISHER: Quartet Books
DATE: 2008
ISBN-10: 0704371499; ISBN-13: 978-0704371491
DESCRIPTION: hardcover, 160 pages

Up West

AUTHOR: Pip Granger
PUBLISHER: Corgi
DATE: 2009
ISBN: 9780552153751
DESCRIPTION:
CONTENT: A description of some of the men and women who lived in Covent Garden and Soho during the post-WW II years. The author and her book were featured on the BBC Radio Four Women's Hour programme on Wednesday 12 August 2009.

Westminster's Villages

AUTHOR: Brian Girling
PUBLISHER: Chalford Publishing Co., St Mary's Mill, Chalford, Stroud, GL6 8NX
DATE: 1996
ISBN: 0-7524-0683-3
DESCRIPTION: 128 pages

Will I See You In Heaven?

EDITORS: Father Michael Seed and Noel Botham (of The French House, Dean Street)
PUBLISHER: Blake Publishing, London W14
DATE:
COPYRIGHT: 1999 (C) Seed/Botham
ISBN: 1-85782-390-7
DESCRIPTION: hardback, 208 pages. Photographs and line drawings.
CONTENT: Pages 194-197 contain comments about the nature of heaven by pupils of the Soho Parish School.