Yardie - Victor Headley

gang war hits London - yardie style!

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1ST PRINTING 1993

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE X-PRESS LIMITED 1992

At Heathrow Airport's busy immigration desk, a newly-arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. And keeps on walking...

By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business-for himself-as the Front Line's newest don.

But D's treachery will never be forgotten-or forgiven. The message filters down from the Yardie crime lords to their soldiers on the streets:

Find D. Find the merchandise. And make him pay for his sins...

'A book which everyone should read, and soon'

THE VOICE

'Who said you need a review in the quality Sundays to have a hit?'

CITY LIMITS

'The black Godfather...quite simply. Headley knows what time it is'

THE JOURNAL

'It's the ruffest, the tuffest and the boo-yacka of all modern gangster novels'

CARIBBEAN TIMES

Bethnal Green - Michael Fisher

Now filmed as...

A PLACE TO GO

STARRING RITA TUSHINGHAM, MIKE SARNE, BERNARD LEE

A RELPH-DEARDEN PRODUCTION

FOR BRITISH LION-BRYANSTON RELEASE THROUGH B.L.C.

PAN BOOKS X230

1ST PRINTING 1963

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CASSELL & CO 1961

MOVIE TIE-IN

BETHNAL GREEN

...a brawling, dingy, decaying mass of street-markets and pubs, damp old houses, reeking gasometers and littered bomb-sites.

Ricky Flint knew no other world. Yet he craved to burst out, to win a better life somewhere for himself and his girl Catherine, an amoral slut, but fired by her own fierce pride...

How Ricky met his one violent chance is told with biting authenticity.

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A novel of the near future by one of the most talented and imaginative writers of today

PAN BOOKS X 321

1st PRINTING 1964

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1962

'HORRORSHOW'

-that's the adjective which Alex, the delinquent teenage villain of the piece would use to describe A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

You, we are sure, will find it one of the most unusual and unforgettable novels you have read. The extreme in wickedness, social satire, abundant racy humour-all are here in this story of London in the none-too-distant future, a city terrorized at night by prowling toughs, where the powers-that-ought-to-be struggle to buy peace and order through the skills of brainwashing psychiatrists!

Eff Off - Sandy Hutson

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1ST PRINTING 1971

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ARLINGTON BOOKS 1969

An explosive, irreverent and brilliantly-characterized first novel by Sandy Hutson

eff off

Describes in sizzling style the problems of a young teacher thrust into the chaotic world of a 'special school' for violent and disturbed children.

Sends TO SIR, WITH LOVE back to the kindergarten! - 'The dialogue scenes are splendidly handled; noisy, witty and obscene.'

NEW STATESMAN

eff off

'Don't do any such thing. Read it-for its fierce pity of the neglected and maladjusted child.'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Explosive epic of the Beat Generation

PAN BOOKS X84

1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANDRE DEUTSCH 1958

This is the odyssey of the Beat Generation, the frenetic young men and their women racing furiously across America to wherever life is fastest, where girls are hottest, parties wildest, 'bop' is to be heard, marijuana to be smoked, or a road to be taken at ninety plus-a neuritic hunger for Sensation and Experience.

'Crazy-mixed-up novel about frustrated youth getting nowhere fast'

-Manchester Evening News

The Hours After Midnight - Joseph Hayes

A story of terror tuned to the relentless ticking of the clock

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1ST PRINTING 1961

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANDRE DEUTSCH 1959

COVER ART BY "PEFF"

2.13 a.m....

'She's a pretty doll, Mr. Elgin.

You don't want nothing to happen to her...'

Then the phone went dead.

This new Joseph Hayes thriller races on with ever-mounting tension through minutes and hours of a single night. Flashing from parents tortured by fear for their daughter, to the girl herself alone with a devil obsessed, this is a novel of almost unbearable suspense.

Up The Junction - Nell Dunn

PAN BOOKS G712

1ST PRINTING 1966

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY MACGIBBON & KEE 1963

Outside revving bikes were splitting the night.

'Where we going?'

'Let's go swimmin' up the Common'.

'We ain't got no swim-suits with us'.

'We'll swim down one end and you down the other. It's dark, ain't it?'

'Who do yer think's going to see yer? The man in the moon?'

'Yeah and what's to stop yer hands wandering?'

'We'll tie 'em behind our backs'.

'Harshly truthful-yet poetic'

DAILY MAIL

Quant By Quant - Mary Quant

PAN BOOKS M209

FIRST PRINTING 1967

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY CASSELL & CO 1966

COVER PHOTO BY DAVID BAILEY

'The girl who became the "enfant terrible" of British fashion tells the riotous St. Trinianite tale of her life, in a zooming high-octane series of intimate pen sketches...It's a frank, often outrageous, laugh-laden account of her headlong plunge to success'

EVENING NEWS

'Mary Quant's autobiography is a must, the success story not only of a young designer but also of the pop revolution'

ECONOMIST

'Mary Quant's story has all the fascination of her own gay and exciting whirl through the fashion world'

BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL

'There's hardly a single peaceful moment in Mary Quant's autobiography...and that's all absolutely right'

DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Picturegoers - David Lodge

Love and brute desire...cynicism and faith- a compassionate, realistic and even shocking novel of urban Britain today

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FIRST PAN EDITION 1962

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1960 BY MCGIBBON & KEE LTD

COVER ART BY OWEN

THE PALLADIUM, Brickley...

To this seedy Saturday night Mecca came:

MARK - who mapped out a girls's body and knew just how far she would let him go...but had, too, a burning need to regain his faith.

CLARE - who helped restore it...but found her own beliefs undermined by a new-found passion.

HARRY - who wanted power over gangs and tarts...yet wilted under insults of an old woman.

FATHER KIPLING - angered by the bosom flaunting crudity of modern life...but too ineffectual to influence his own congregation.

And so many others-each of them seeking, searching, questing...

Only Lovers Left Alive - Dave Wallis

PAN BOOKS X464

LONDON, UK

FIRST PAN EDITION 1966

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ANTHONY BLOND 1964

Smashing, looting, killing, loving-

the teenagers take over all Britain

'a shattering sensational novel...a real original'

DAILY EXPRESS

The adults have committed suicide with Easyway pills, and the teenagers have taken over. Free to smash, loot and love as they like, the gangs roar through the streets on their expendable 

brand-new motorcycles in search of disappearing stocks of lipstick, petrol and food. Free of adult control the youngsters commit every sin but hypocrisy...until they meet the future.

'Grim and often macabre, this contemporary fantasy has a vigorous fertility of invention, rattling pace and dialogue that crackles with vitality'

BIRMINGHAM POST

'arresting and terrifying'

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM

The Law Of The Streets - Auguste Le Breton

"A brutal story from the backstreets of Paris"

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LONDON, UK

1ST PAN EDITION 1959

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY W.M. COLLINS SONS & CO 1957

The law of the streets

AUGUSTE LE BRETON, author of Rififi-a sensation when filmed-makes another shattering impact with this vicious story of the underworld of Paris.

Two young thugs, YVES TREGUIER and LA GLACE, live the violent life of the backstreets where the gun and the razor are the only passports to survival.

This brilliant thriller tells of crime and passion, murder and revenge-but not without a strange tenderness.

'...convincing study of loyalties in the lower depths, lots of violence, and a seedily authentic rouges' gallery'.

-EVENING STANDARD

The Third Skin - John Bingham

"A novel of the weak and the wicked"

PAN BOOKS G210

1ST PAN PRINTING 1959

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1954

COVER ART BY DE MARCO

'You didn't kill him did you, Ron?' he said piteously. 'He's all right, isn't he?'

Dimly-very dimly-Les realised that he was caught up in something big which he could not control. He was no longer a free agent...

Whether he liked it or not, they'd have to hang together-and the phrase sent a wave of terror through him.

JOHN BINGHAM, one of the foremost 'straight' novelists of our day, tells the story of Les, a cosh-boy, who was fundamentally harmless, but weak and impressionable-a story which moves us to pity and horror.

Two Left Feet - David Stuart Leslie

London's teenage jungle blazing vividly to life

PAN BOOKS X194

2ND PRINTING 1963

LONDON, UK

(FIRST PUBLISHED BY PAN BOOKS 1963)
MOVIE TIE-IN

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK 

AS "IN MY SOLITUDE" BY HUTCHINSON & CO 1960

'FINGS AS THEY ARE...

jive clubs, flick-knife duels, rivalry over girls...

Fresh observation, no self-pity, no phoney sociology, rough and squalid, yet redeemed often by sardonic cockney humour...

A story as convincing as it is readable' Daily Express

David Stuart Leslie steps into the world of Teds and tarts, violence and uncertainty and comes out with a novel at once brutally honest and superbly written

Adrift in Soho - Colin Wilson

"The comic, sad, blazingly honest novel of a young man's search for experience among London's eccentrics, Beats and Artists"

PAN BOOKS X297

1ST PAPERBACK PRINTING 1964

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY VICTOR GOLLANCZ 1961

Down to London from the Midlands comes Harry, a young man searching for experience. How he finds it, adrift in Soho, is the story of this picaresque and wonderfully entertaining novel

The espresso bars, dingy 'dives', the broken-down tarts and actors, the virago landladies, the unwashed sheets - so good is Mr. Wilson's prose, one sees and smells them all