G. H. R. Young was the author of a single collection of short stories, the British Library containing no further information, not even a ful...

Born in London on 13 July 1911, Eric Williams joined the R.A.F. on the outbreak of war and served in Bomber Command. In December 1942 he was...

Violette Bushell was the daughter of a French mother and English father who had met during World War I, born in Paris in 1921. She grew up i...

A quick note from me: I've only just had a chance to update and post the Recent Releases and Upcoming Releases columns, which haven'...

My mate Jim Mackenzie sends over an enquiry: "I have a copy of The Bard's Cloak by Percy G. Griggs on loan," he says. "I...

Here's another poser sent in by my pal John Herrington. I thought I'd share it with you because we have our own John Freeman in the...

Another enquiry, another run around the family records circuit. Bernard Home was credited with a couple of thrillers in the 1930s and has pr...

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. This is the first Comic Cuts column of 2011 and I don't really have an awful lot of...

Donald Henderson Clarke was an author of semi-hard-boiled novels and romances that were considered risqué back in the 1930s. Indeed, one— ...

News of the death of actress Anne Francis on 2 January at the age of 80 inspired me to dig around the shelves to find the few Honey West nov...

As we've not had one for a while, I thought I'd pick a random Digit book and see what I could find out about the author. I struck lu...

Mary Irene Cathcart Borer was born in London on 3 February 1906, the daughter of Archibald James Borer (a hospital secretary) and his wife...

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