Max Décharné Books

Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From the Fridge, Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies...

A revised and expanded edition of Max Decharne's much-loved and previously out-of-print 'King's Road'. The book serves as a social history of the famed road in West London, and focuses on the music, trends, and cultural output of the area.

The story of Britain's first youth counterculture