Tuesday 2 May 2017

Hot-Rod Babe - Tom Haunt

THEY LOVED FAST CARS- AND FAST FEMALES


GASLIGHT BOOKS 124
1ST PRINTING 1964
NEW YORK, USA

FORBIDDEN THRILLS.....

All Eric wanted was a car to tinker with, and a pretty bride to take care of his love life...But love and life got very complicated when he got tangled up with the Fender Busters, a gang of depraved delinquents addicted to hot-rods and hot women...Among the complications was Eric's relationship with girls like...Mae, who as the result of a frame-up set out to prove that she was truly a woman by accepting all male comers...Jayne, the sultry poor little rich girl with a yen for fast cars, violent men and pretty females, in equal proportions...Ruthie, the not-so-simple farm girl who was Jayne's avid partner in the twilight zone of sex...Lollie, who looked like a pert Junior miss but behaved like an insatiable nymph...and last but not least, lovely red-headed Ann Steel, who modelled panties and bras for a living, raced stock cars as a hobby...All these, and others, were the basic ingredients in a seething volcano of

.....FORBIDDEN LOVE

Monday 1 May 2017

Thumb Tripping - Don Mitchell

A dazzling novel of the American Road in the tradition of Jack Kerouac and Easy Rider


PANTHER BOOKS 586 03687 3
1st PRINTING 1972
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY JONATHAN CAPE 1971

A Road Odyssey

California. Summer. A young man and a beautiful girl, hitch-hiking along the coast. A time of sunshine, sleeping out in a shared sleeping bag, making love in the open air. A time to get high - on scenery, on each other, on pot. But sometimes things get out of hand. A lift from a queer warlock becomes an excruciating experience of sexual embarrassment...a burly truck driver out of his skull on speed gets horny for the girl...a lift from a clean-living all-American family turns into a nightmare alcoholic binge...and that's not all. Not by a long way....

Funny and terrifying by turns, Don Mitchell's award-winning novel (soon to be a major movie) is one of the most entertaining and thoughtful pieces of writing to come out of the new youth scene.

Sunday 30 April 2017

Drummer - Richard Carlile

Brilliant and thought-provoking: a hallucinatory trip into a savage, amoral, rock-horror nightmare


TANDEM BOOKS 426 13231 9
1st PRINTING 1971
LONDON, UK

A wild, neon-lit, stereophonic experience, too out-of-this-world to be fact, too true to life to be fiction.

...at the first moment of their appearance in the stadium the screaming of the fans swelled to a chaos of sound. Malk held up his arms and appealed for quiet, shouting into his mike in a futile attempt to make himself heard. He gave a shrug and turned to the others.

Okay, here we go. A-four, a-three. a-two, a-one! 

They launched into the act. No one heard them. Like figures in a silent movie they plucked their guitars, mouthed and gaped, stamped, shook, gesticulated. The pace grew wilder and wilder and when Sonny smashed his instrument to pieces and hurled away the bits, began to tear off his clothes and scratch his face, the audience took it all as part of the performance. They smelled blood, and howled for more...

Saturday 29 April 2017

Rule Of Night - Trevor Hoyle

Kenny is savage, sensitive, menacing and unpredictable. This is his story - a haunting novel of teenage violence, crime and kicks.


FUTURA BOOKS 0 8600 7175 8
1st PRINTING 1975
LONDON, UK

Kenny Seddon exists. He's as real as you are. This documentary novel explores the sub-world of teenage violence in the northern town of Rochdale - with real people, true events, and disturbing consequences. Only the names have been changed to mask the identities of Kenny and his gang.

You see them any day of the week, hanging round street corners, telling dirty jokes, kicking in bus shelter windows (and sometimes peoples's faces). Charging across football pitches to grapple with rival fans. You read about his kind in books, see him portrayed in films and on television.

But in Rule of Night you're not reading fiction - but fact. Trevor Hoyle spent four months researching the background to this book. He toured the pubs, stood on the terraces, talked to the parents, and through notes and tape-recordings has reconstructed a documented case-history which tries to answer the one question that seems to baffle everybody - what makes Kenny tick?

Friday 28 April 2017

Too Far To Walk - John Hersey

THE TURNED-ON NOVEL OF THE L.S.D. GENERATION
"The sequel to LORD OF THE FLIES and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE"
THE NEW YORK TIMES


CORGI BOOKS 552 08001 2
1st PRINTING 1968
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HAMISH HAMILTON 1966

Written by one of the major writers of our time, this is a novel about the new generation. The boys and girls who have everything, and nothing; who have tried it all-and still want more. It is a novel of lives filled with a new kind of desperation, and of kicks that mount to the greatest, most dangerous kick of all-a searing trip straight to heaven...or hell!

Thursday 27 April 2017

Teen-Age Vice - Courtney Ryley Cooper

This book exposes: The Vice Racket, Dope Addiction, Juke Joint Binges, Cabins For The Night, Prisons That Pervert, The Smut Peddlers, Lonely Hearts Clubs


PYRAMID BOOKS G43
1st PRINTING 1952
NEW YORK, USA
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY LITTLE, BROWN & CO MARCH 1939 AS 'DESIGNS IN SCARLET'

JAILBAIT!

They hold orgies in cellar clubs, go on juke joint binges and motel "honeymoons." They get hopped up on liquor and dope, then rob and rape and murder. They are the young people under 21 who commit more than half the major crimes in the U.S.A.

What makes them do it? Who is to blame? Courtney Ryley Cooper gives you the grim and tragic answers in this brilliant and blistering expose of teen-age vice.

This book is a harsh dose, but a vitally necessary one. It was not written for children, morons, or sensation seekers-but only for the purpose of giving you the facts. If you are squeamish and choose to ignore them-even while the teen-age trouble in your town is running wild-then this book is not for you!

Wednesday 26 April 2017

The Devil's Churchyard - Ted Willis

DIXON OF DOCK GREEN in a NEW full-length thriller


MAX PARRISH
1st PRINTING 1957
LONDON, UK
COVER ART BY HENRY FOX

The DEVIL'S CHURCHYARD...
is no routine patrol - not by a long chalk!

It is the first full-length story of P.C. DIXON of Dock Green, out on one of the grimmest beats of his life.

Once you start reading this new thriller, there's no holding back. You are immediately up to the neck in enthralling detection with Dixon himself and young Buster. And Buster has an added problem of his own: the gang of Teddy Boys. They include Ginger Noakes, 'a boy with a meaningless, almost permanent grin,'and Danny, with his 'warm,peppermint-scented breath'.

This new, dramatic mystery story has been specially written by the author of Dixon Of Dock Green (top of TV's popularity poll), and the famous police film The Blue Lamp.

As Jack Warner says, 'I know you will enjoy this thrilling story' - and he ought to know!