Friday, 26 May 2017

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!

Wednesday, 24 May 2017

Eff Off - Sandy Hutson



PAN BOOKS 0 330 02613 5
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

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

The Jury Is Still Out - Irwin D. Davidson and Richard Gehman

"This is a horrifying book, strongly recommended to all who are concerned about crime in young people." -John O'London's


PANTHER BOOKS 1158
1ST PRINTING JANUARY 1961
LONDON, UK
FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PETER DAVIES LTD 1959

A NATION WAS SHOCKED...

and the reader will be shocked by this frightening account of a brutal killing and the sensational murder trial that followed it. The American Press gave detailed-often hysterical-coverage to the trial; now the Judge himself gives the complete story. It is one that contains a sobering thought for all of us.

"This book cannot merely be shrugged off with 'It would not happen here'. Reading it, you get an uneasy feeling that it could."
-Birmingham Mail

Monday, 22 May 2017

The Power Gods - Bud Clifton

A gang of young punks with a mania for speed and sex


PYRAMID BOOKS G410
1ST PRINTING MAY 1959
NEW YORK, USA
COVER ART BY LOU MARCHETTI

GANG GIRL

She had never been in a convertible before, let alone driven one. It was a big yellow Buick and racing it up to seventy-five on the open Nevada roads excited her so much she began to giggle. She was eighteen. And she had stolen the car.

She slowed down. She didn't want some cop to pick her up for speeding. She'd just pulled a job-a big one-and she had to get back to the boys. They didn't know it, but those kids with their black leather jackets and goggles and motorcycles were sitting ducks. They might think they were doing her a favor, letting her hang around, loving her up. But Bella had other ideas. Big-time ideas. And this gang of speed-mad, sex-mad young punks was due for a shattering surprise.

Sunday, 21 May 2017

Kill Me A Priest - John Farrimond



CORGI BOOKS GN7555
1ST PRINTING 1966
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY GEORGE G. HARRAP 1965

KILL ME A PRIEST, BENNY BUCKEL!

Maxie was tough. Maxie was big-and cunning-and Maxie's gang was the best, the strongest, and the the most vicious on the street.

Benny didn't care what he did to get into Maxie's mob-anything at all, and he waited for Maxie-Maxie who was God-to decide.

'You want to join me, Benny? You want to get in the Mob? So what I want is for you to rub out the priest. Go kill me a priest, Benny Buckel.'

Saturday, 20 May 2017

Violent Sunday - James A. Brown

THE DRINKING DENS AND DANCE HALLS OF JOHANNESBURG


ACE BOOKS H349
1ST PRINTING 1960
LONDON, UK
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY ROBERT HALE 1956

A compelling and sensitive portrait of life in the Negro shanty towns ringing Johannesburg
-DAILY SKETCH

Distressful, fiercely impressive novel...if his story is painful, it is so burningly and compassionately alive, so sure in characterisation, so unflinching in its posing of a bitter problem, that it demands to be read
-VANITY FAIR

Often it is brutal and sordid in a manner which cannot be paralleled in Europe, but it also offers poetry and humour
-TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The tragedy of David, who envied the white man's wealth and sought to achieve parity by crime, is played out against an inclusive background of squalor and disillusionment
-BIRMINGHAM MAIL

Friday, 19 May 2017

Monkey On My Back - Wenzell Brown

Teen-Agers Caught In The Dope Racket


WDL BOOKS 275
1ST PRINTING FEBRUARY 1958
LONDON, UK

Here are the true and terrifying experiences of "junkies" who started "blasting" for thrills and couldn't "kick" the habit - and the crimes they committed to get "the monkey off their backs." Told by a man who lived with them intimately, and who spares no one in exposing the menace of teen-age drug addiction, it is a social document of the highest importance.