Max Décharné

Angels with dirty faces

The most lurid pulp fiction titles of the 1970s were dreamt up by New English Library — who also gave us Mary Whitehouse’s autobiography

  • Girl Gangs, Biker Boys and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980

    eds. Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette

    PM Press, pp. 334

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