Showing posts with label Sphere Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sphere Books. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 June 2017

A Sweet Sweet Summer - Jane Gaskell



SPHERE BOOKS 37850
1ST PRINTING 1971
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HODDER & STOUGHTON 1969

The public execution of Ringo Starr

is the first demonstration of power by the aliens whose spacecraft hangs over Britain and seals off the country from the outside world. Out of the chaos the aliens have created emerges a new social order, dominated by mob rule drug farms, and gang warfare.

The hero is a teenage ponce, running a house which is part brothel and part headquarters for a group of Neo Nazi thugs. He operates in a derelict pop world, a savage parody of the permissive society, in which people make love and carve each other up with equal carelessness.

Friday, 24 March 2017

Buttons: The Making Of A President - Jamie Mandelkau


SPHERE BOOKS 58041
FIRST PRINTING 1971
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY OPEN GATE BOOKS 1971
WITH EIGHT PAGES OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

This is the true story of Buttons, President of the London Chapter of the Hell's Angels, England, as told to Jamie Mandelkau

Buttons traces the rise of the leader of Britain's Hells Angels from his days as a rocker, through his visit to the United States where he received his Angel colours, to his return and subsequent adventures in Britain. 

It is not a book for the squeamish: Hells Angels are not always gentle, nor does their life style always reflect the accepted norms of society. It is, however, an honest account of one part of the New Culture.

Sunday, 8 May 2016

Eat The Cake And Have It - Jan Maat

A hopeless drug addict with a fifteen-year-old mistress hell-bent on destroying him and his family.


SPHERE BOOKS 566928
LONDON, UK
FIRST PRINTING 1970

Set in America, this powerful new novel traces the destruction of the secure and wealthy Dainsby household by their teenage drug-addict son.

The boy is dominated body and soul, by his fifteen-year-old mistress who is bitterly determined to destroy him and his family. When this couple take refuge in the Dainsbys' country house, the tragedy that ensues savagely exposes the failures and errors below the circumspect surface of the family.

"Jan Maat stylizes the violence of American society by writing uín staccato phrases that record the inexorable hopelessness of a family without love or understanding."
-TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Friday, 26 December 2014

Soccer Thug - Frank Clegg

"A shocking indictment of the violent world of the terrace tearaways"


SPHERE BOOKS 0722193394
1ST PRINTING 1973
LONDON, UK

STRIKER WASN'T ALL BAD...

he did enjoy agro and birds and the roaring power of his Triumph Bonneville. But the big thing in his life was the United football team. And especially the flamboyant Irish superstar, Donnell. Striker followed United everywhere, ready to support his team on the pitch and its reputation off-field. His fervour dropped him into trouble: with the police, with rival fans, and trouble with Rantic who wanted to take over the gang. But whether it was women or agro Striker usually knew how to look after himself. Usually...

Soccer Thug - a shocking indictment of the violent world of the terrace tearaways