Short stories are always good to dip into over the Christmas holiday period and I recently came across two enjoyable collections, one new and one old! Silent Nights...
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Fans of the thrillers by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are in for a real treat in 2026! Coming in January is an origin story for their popular series about the...
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The Scorpio Letters by Victor Canning (Thriller Club Edition, 1965) Victor Canning (1911-86) has largely slipped from modern view, but in his prime was a very popular...
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Paperback publishers, especially Horwitz in Australia, underpinned their usual output of crime, romance and westerns with less savoury books that sought to exploit...
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My recent trawling through bookstores and bookfairs has uncovered an interesting array of pulpy 1950s and 60s paperbacks from Australian publisher Horwitz. From war...
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In the late 1960s/early 1970s Spanish syndicated artwork became a common feature of generally lower end book covers across the globe. These syndicated covers, which...
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