World War II left a heavy mark on society, and not surprisingly it featured prominently in popular fiction well into the 1960s and 70s. In Australia a lot of the...
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With lockdown over and COVID restrictions lifted, I have been able to get out and go book hunting. I have actually accumulated quite a few new additions recently from...
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The latest issue of Men’s Adventure Quarterly, Issue No. 4, focuses on Jungle Girls, which was a popular theme of men’s magazines in the 1950s and 60s. Its...
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Just before Christmas I attended the COVID delayed Lifeline Bookfair in Canberra and found a nice selection of interesting trashy paperback from the 1960s to the 1980s....
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2021 was a difficult year for many, but on the crime fiction/thriller front it was a very good year. As with 2020, I read slightly more in 2021 than in previous years,...
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Had I But Groaned by Carter Brown (Signet, 1968) Robert McGinnis’ stylish ‘Good Girl Art’ covers are almost synonymous with the American editions of...
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