It’s strange to read about Soho bookshops in Graham Greene’s The Human Factor, and find yourself shopping in a similar enterprise the same day.
There’s a place called The Soho Bookshop which has two branches as such – similar to the setup in the Greene novel. They both sell standard fare on the ground floor – albeit largely remaindered books and videos. But downstairs they’re your usual “adult” fare. I try not to venture down there…