If you've ever wondered what a troupe of strippers singing the sayings of Chairman Mao to the tune of 'Climb Every Mountain' would be like, this is the book for you. Sequel to Lawrence and Trengove's perennially popular 'It's Your Money In My Pocket, Dear, Not Mine In Yours', it revisits early seventies Soho to find out what happens when striptease club Le Can-Can gets taken over by a workers' co-operative headed by demented Communist carpenter Chan. The third volume of the authors' London Chronicles, 'Mao' is funny, filthy, nostalgic and occasionally violent, recalling an age in which Soho...