TRASHY TUESDAY: FEVER HEAT AND CAR RACING
Fever Heat by Angus Vicker (Original Novels, 1955) Racing car novels were not a big part of the Australian men’s adventure paperback market. Horwitz dipped their...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: AUGUST BOOK HAUL
Book Haul Collage – August 2021 My latest acquisition of trashy covers is a rather eclectic collection comprising some Horwitz historical titles, a rare book by...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: RECENT BOOK HAUL OF FORGOTTEN SPY NOVELS
Operation: MissSat by J. E. Macdonnell, (Horwitz, 1987) In a recent round of bookstores and book fairs I uncovered some long forgotten spy novels from the 1960s and...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: MORE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL PAPERBACKS FROM THE 1960S
A Pair of Hands by J. E. Macdonnell (Horwitz, MS 1,1960, 1962) Following my recent post on Australian paperback medical adventures and romances of the 1960s...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: JAPANESE HORROR CAMPS – THE JOHN SLATER POW NOVELS
The Horror Camp by John Slater (Horwitz #1, 1961, 1965) World War II featured prominently in popular fiction well into the 1960s and 70s. In Australia there emerged in...
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TRASHY TUESDAY: SMOKING DOCTORS, SEXY NURSES AND THE OUTBACK – Australian medical paperbacks in the 1960s
Flying Doctor Urgent by Karen Miller (Horwitz, 1963) Medical adventures and medical romances were a popular sub-genre of early 1960s Australian paperback publishing,...
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