by NRB | 8 Mar 2018 | Non-fiction |
Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette have created a loving homage to pulp fiction with its lurid covers and taglines. This book, lavishly illustrated with pulp covers, is itself a beautiful thing. Its own lurid green cover features a number of pulp...
by NRB | 24 Jan 2017 | Non-fiction |
Peter Doyle seeks to unlock the stories behind this extraordinary collection of police mug shots from the early 20th century. Around 1910 the New South Wales Police began photographing some of the people who passed through Sydney’s Central and other inner-city police...
by NRB | 30 Jul 2015 | Crime Scene |
Music and popular culture provide the backdrop to this long-awaited new Billy Glasheen novel. It’s no surprise that Peter Doyle, authority on popular culture, slide guitarist, university professor and social historian, has written a series of novels that...
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