A memoir and cultural history the Worlds End a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism. Charlie Geres account of growing up in the Worlds End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history cultural history memoir and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the Kings Road the Worlds End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists including Turner Whistler Beckett Bacon