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POLITICS

The political doubts that surfaced in the late-1960s were reinforced by the instabilities of the 1970s. From the Prague Spring to the Winter of Discontent, this was a rich time for panicked visions of future decline. The centre could not hold etc etc.



GF NEWMAN
THE ABDUCTION

A headline-making novel that asks: 'Is kidnapping a Premier the answer to Africa's chaos?'


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REX WARNER
THE AERODROME

'A brilliant allegory on the dangerous, yet glamorous appeal of fascism'


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ALAN BURNS
THE ANGRY BRIGADE

'A documentary novel'


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SOL YURICK
THE BAG

'A passionate, seething, rolling novel ... another Grapes of Wrath' - New York Times


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AUBERON WAUGH
A BED OF FLOWERS

'In the beautiful Somerset countryside, a collection of refugees from modern life have created an alternative society'


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JOHN JAKES
BLACK IN TIME

'A black militant, a white supremacist, and a time-travel device tangle in a fight to rewrite history and eternity!'


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HARRY ARVAY
BLOW THE FOUR WINDS

'A taut novel of international terrorism - startling as today's news...'


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WILLIAM BUTLER
THE BUTTERFLY REVOLUTION

'A stunning novel of the young and evil'


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GEORGE SHIPWAY
THE CHILIAN CLUB

'Excellent! It has four heroes - and I mean HEROES' - Sunday Express


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DONALD SEAMAN
THE COMMITTEE

'Tense and chilling' - Daily Express


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PAMELA KETTLE
THE DAY OF THE WOMEN

'Britain in the Seventies - Swept Into Revolution by Women'


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ROBERT McKEW with REED DE ROUEN
DEATH LIST

'When the hunters became the hunted'


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JACK OSBOURNE EASTON
DEFENCE OF THE REALM

'Ex-Defence MP In KGB Sex Scandal'


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IAN ROSSE
THE DROOP

'The price of permissiveness - a mysterious and terrible plague'


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PETER DUNANT
EXTERMINATING ANGELS

'One of the best novels about terrorism' - Time Out


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ROBIN CADE
THE FEAR DEALERS

'Their weapon - a million ton floating bomb!'


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EDMUND COOPER
FIVE TO TWELVE

'A brilliantly ingenious blend of satire and science fiction' - Sunday Times


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M. GILLILAND
THE FREE

'I heartily recommend it' - John Le Carre


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GUS WEILL
THE FUHRER SEED

'Dying, the old evil had spawned a new terror'


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WILLIAM HAGGARD
THE HARDLINERS


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THOMAS LUKE
THE HELL CANDIDATE
'The world's most powerful man has the devil to pay'


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PAUL BRYERS
HOLLOW TARGET

'A chillingly authentic novel of international terrorism'


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WILLIAM FRITTS
HOUSE OF ANOTHER KIND

'The nation erupts with violence when a baffling structure confirms the existence of life in the stars...'


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MARTYN GOFF
INDECENT ASSAULT

'Scandal in high places'


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GILLIAN FREEMAN
THE LEADER

'Horrifying reconstruction of how a new Hitler might arise.' - Times Literary Supplement


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WALTER HARRIS
THE MISTRESS OF DOWNING STREET


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ANTHONY FOWLES
PASTIME

'One of the most riveting and topical novels of the year'


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JOHN de St JORRE & BRIAN SHAKESPEARE
THE PATRIOT GAME

'Horrifying lifelike ... The suspense is relentless' - Library Journal


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ROBERT BARNARD
POLITICAL SUICIDE

'A wickedly funny hatchet job on the mother of parliaments' - The Observer


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MAURICE EDELMAN
THE PRIME MINISTER'S DAUGHTER

'The private lives of people in power.'


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BOB COOK
QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY

'Rome held to deadly ransom by Red Brigade terrorists'


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ROY CLEWS
THE RISE OF CROMWELL JONES

'Hail the new Lord Protector'


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GRAHAM LORD
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY

'A thriller of shivering pace' - Sunday Express


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WILLIAM SLOAN
TEAR GAS AND HUNGRY DOGS

'Suddenly, without warning, without sanity, came the explosion... RACE RIOT!!!'


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DAVID PINNER
THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND

'A Political Novel'


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ROBERT BYRNE
THE TUNNEL

'An original, powerful and dramatic novel'


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DONALD E WESTLAKE
UP YOUR BANNERS

'From the author of How To Steal A Diamond and Bank Shot'


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CHRIS MULLIN
A VERY BRITISH COUP

'A delicious fantasy to enjoy...the book is crisply written and the story belts along. It is also an important guide to the thinking of the new left' - The Observer


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DAVID LIPPINCOTT
THE VOICE OF ARMAGEDDON
'Wonderfully ingenious ... freezingly convincing' - CP Snow


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JON BURMEISTER
THE WEATHERMAN GUY

'The gunpowder plot - tomorrow's headlines'


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CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON
WHEN THE KISSING HAD TO STOP

'Relegates Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World to the nursery' - Daily Mail


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ARTHUR WISE
WHO KILLED ENOCH POWELL?

'A novel'


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EDMUND COOPER
WHO NEEDS MEN?

'Racy, with some nice touches typical of Mr Cooper' - Evening Standard


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TARA HANKS
WICKED BABY

'A tale of innocence corrupted'


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ROBERT THOM
WILD IN THE STREETS

'Teen Takeover - The Day It All Happened, Baby!'


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RUSSELL BRADDON
THE YEAR OF THE ANGRY RABBIT

'There's never been a book like this before'


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PLUS

Who dumped their signed first edition of a Jonathan Aitken book in an Oxfam shop?


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