Books and magazines

Launched by the late Robert Maxwell in 1990, this was envisaged as 'Europe's first national newspaper' and had an initial projected circulation of over half a million, across several European nations. However, it in the end achieved only maximum weekly ...

Yes I know the books were so politically uncorrect that you could scream but compulsive reading at the age of 9. How I wanted to go to boarding school just so that I could "fall into an adventure". How they ...

Written by Jayne Fisher, the Garden Gang series were small books that each featured two stories about a fruit or vegetable like Penelope Strawberry or Roger Radish. The full Garden Gang series featured: Penelope Strawberry and Roger Radish (1979) Percival ...

These American boys' books date from the 1930s, went out of fashion and then returned in the 1980s. ...

House Of Hammer was a magazine started in 1976 dedicated to Hammer Films. Each issue included a comic strip adaptation of a Hammer movie, beginning with Horror Of Dracula. It went on to adapt Curse Of Frankenstein, The Gorgon, Dracula ...

This was a series of children's books, originally written in the 1940s by Enid Blyton, but still going strong decades later. Three children - Bessie, Joe and Fanny (sometimes joined by other children, like their cousin Dick, and the ...

This was a short story I read at school in the early 60s and it had a great impact on me I havenet been able to trace the author or book since- would love someone to find out for me. ...

Created by the eccentric Finnish author Tove Jansson, The Moomins were a family of inocuous hippo-like creatures with huge round snouts, who lived in 'Moominvalley', a remote Northern idyll outside of space and time and well-shielded from the influences of ...

This was a popular compilation of ghost stories, that was published by Puffin around 1979. The supernatural was hugely popular in the '70s, so no collection of children's ghost fiction could possibly fail in those days. I never had a ...

this was about 3 boys one i think was called jupiter they had a caravan as an office in jupiters uncles junk yard the most famous one was called terror castle books by alfred hitchcock Detectives - Juvenile detectives - ...

Titbits was a weekly that was the 70s dad's equivalent to Nuts or Zoo magazine. sport, fags, booze, cars and women. It still makes me giggle to myself. Titbits was the first magazine to feature a glamour girl on the front ...

This character featured in The Beezer comic in the late '70s / early '80s, an obnoxious child who was much addicted to practical jokes of a not very pleasant sort. He was a kind of equivalent to The Beano's 'Roger ...

Tubby and the Lantern was a hardback book about a blue elephant who has an adventure which is set around little Chinese bridges and Chinese lanterns. Mine was lost years ago :( trying hard to find it again - lovely memories... ...