Chronicles de Quincey and Coleridge's hazy laudanum days in Tyburnia; charts Verlaine and Rimbaud's progress in Camden Town; toasts Wilde in Kettners and the Cafe Royal; imbibes absinthe with Yeats at the Cheshire Cheese; snorts coke with Aleister Crowley on Chancery Lane; sups best bitter with Dylan Thomas in the Fitzroy Tavern and catches last orders in Soho with Francis Bacon. While true Bohemians may be long gone, their style, irregular work patterns, love intoxicants and unusual sexual mores shaped the city we know and love today.