This booklet contains the full text of 'The Other Side of Town', the memoir by Charles Compton Street (aka Charles Russell/Belchier) on which the first part of Colin Wilson’s 'Adrift in Soho' novel, first published in 1961, and now a feature film, was based. Also Colin Wilson's unpublished 'Author's Note' to the novel discovered in his archive at the University of Nottingham; the text of his article 'My Night With the Beatniks' published in the Sunday Dispatch on January 15, 1961; Sidney R. Campion on 'Adrift in Soho' and an essay by the editor Colin Stanley on the writing of the novel.