Plantation/slaver pulp was a popular, but unpleasant, sub-genre championed by many publishers in the 1970s. In the United Kingdom, New English Library (NEL) was a...
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My recent trawling through old bookshops and bookfairs has uncovered an odd collection of old crime and spy novels, some adult titles and a striking western cover! The...
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Before the domination of the Australian paperback market by Horwitz, there were a range of smaller publishers that produced a regular supply of mysteries. One of these...
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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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