The latest edition of Paperback Fanatic (No. 48) by Justin Marriott just arrived and it is another terrific issue! Paperback Fanatic 48 As usual, the issue is full of...
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Vintage paperback collectors generally bemoan the shift in the late 1960s/early 1970s from illustrated covers to photographic covers. While the photographic covers...
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Spies and ghosts are not an usual combination. There are exceptions, such as Raymond Hawkey’s compelling It, but in general serious spy novels and the...
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At a recent bookfair I acquired some nice Pan and Great Pan books, which covered the spectrum of genre fiction. The pick of them are set out below, including some good...
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After a successful run of high quality adventure thrillers in the MacLean/Bagley style, Gavin Lyall turned towards spy thrillers in 1982 with a short series about Major...
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Plantation pulp was a popular, but unpleasant, sub-genre championed by many publishers in the 1970s. British publisher New English Library (NEL) was a particularly...
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