Ĭity of Spades was adapted by Biyi Bandele as a radio play, directed by Toby Swift, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 April 2001. ĭavid Bowie appeared in the film Absolute Beginners and recorded the title song, which was a hit in England. In 2007 a stage adaptation by Roy Williams was performed at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London. Gradually their lives intermesh.Ībsolute Beginners was filmed in 1986 by director Julien Temple. Mr Love is a novice ponce ( pimp) Mr Justice is a police officer newly transferred to the plain-clothes division of the Vice Squad. Mr Love & Justice concerns two characters, Frank Love and Edward Justice, during late 1950s London. Openly bisexual, he wrote on subjects including urban squalor, racial issues, bisexuality, drugs, anarchy, and "decadence". Many of his books were set in the Notting Hill area of London, then a poor and racially mixed area, home to many new immigrants and which suffered a race riot during 1958. He was the author of a number of books depicting London youth and black immigrant culture during the 1950s, in particular City of Spades (1957), Absolute Beginners (1959) and Mr Love & Justice (1960), known collectively as the "London trilogy". Soon after his return to England, he worked for BBC Radio until he could earn a living from his writing. These experiences resulted in the writing of his first novel, To the Victors the Spoils. MacInnes served in the British Intelligence Corps during the Second World War, and worked in occupied Germany after the European armistice. Towards the end of his life, he stayed at the home of Martin Green, his publisher, and Green's wife Fiona, in Fitzrovia, where MacInnes spent time, regarding their small family as his own adoptive one until his death. He worked in Brussels from 1930 until 1935, then studied painting in London at the London Polytechnic school and the School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road. For much of his childhood, he was known as Colin Thirkell, the surname of his mother's second husband later he used his father's name McInnes, afterwards changing it to MacInnes. The family relocated to Australia in 1920, MacInnes returning in 1931. MacInnes's parents divorced and his mother remarried. MacInnes was born in London, the son of singer James Campbell McInnes and novelist Angela Mackail, who was the granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and also related to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin.
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