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Indie Sindys.

"Gottle of geer. Gottle of geer..."

Songs Of Couch & Consultation by Katie Lee. Realm Records, 1957. (listen here: youtu.be/tu7Tro0WJ6c)

When did men stop dressing like Tom Bombadil?

If the shoe fits... La Vie Parisienne, August 1916. Cover by Chéri Hérouard.

The Pool of Tears. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by Margaret Tarrant (1916).

L'Arrivée des Marsiens. Part 1 of La Guerre des Mondes by H.G. Wells, Illustrated by Alvim-Corrêa (Brussels 1916)

The Inland Printer, April 1916. Cover by Adolfo Hohenstein.

Mermaid meets man. Motor Boating, February 1916.

Early Instagram... The Modern Priscilla, January 1916. Cover by John Edwin Jackson.

"The Nerve Of The Man". Film Fun, January 1916.

Manchester Piccadilly station, 1962. Back when Brutalosm was king.

Plans for #Christmas leftovers...

C'mon kids, how many hairdos do you really need? Comb/Outs and Hairdos for Teens, 1963.

The Emmerdale Farm #Knitting Book (1983). Country knits for country folk.

Merry Christmas everybody!

Software Piracy. Byte Magazine, May 1981. Cover by Robert Tinney.

Computer Games. Byte Magazine, December 1981. Cover by Robert Tinney.

Operating Systems. Byte Magazine, June 1981. Cover by Robert Tinney.

My clear desk policy... Byte Magazine, April 1977.

LISP: it was the future once. Byte Magazine, August 1979. Cover by Robert Tinney.

Robotics. Byte Magazine, January 1986. Cover by Robert Tinney.

Floppy Disks. Byte magazine, May 1980. Cover by Robert Tinney.

Murder In Three Acts, by Agatha Christie. Avon Books, 1945.

Dead Man's Mirror, by Agatha Christie. Dell Books, 1966.

Evil Under The Sun, by Agatha Christie. Fontana Books, 1957.

The Clocks, by Agatha Christie. Collins Book Club, 1963. Cover by George Chrichard.

It's hard booking appointments nowadays... Appointment With Death, by Agatha Christie. Dell Books, 1971.

Fezes are cool... Death On The Nile, by Agatha Christie. Avon Books T149, 1956.

Poirot comes out of retirement. Peril At End House, by Agatha Christie. Fontana Books, 1961.

Dood Van Een Danseres, by Agatha Christie. Atlas Mystery, 1952.

Murder On The Links, by Agatha Christie. Dell Mapback, 1950. Not sure about that keyhole...

The Listerdale Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Fontana, 1975. Banana gun by artist Tom Adams.

Death In The Clouds, by Agatha Christie. Fontana, 1979. Cover by Tom Adams.

The Secret Adversary, by Agatha Christie. Bantam Books, 1981. Cover by Tom Adams.

W*I*T*C*H: We Intend To Create Havoc, by Jane Harman (aka Terry Harknett). New English Library, 1971. Terry was a British pulp legend who also wrote westerns under the pen name George G Gilman.

The Airs Of Earth, by Brian Aldiss. New English Library, 1975. Cover by Bruce Pennington. It's an anthology including the beautiful tale 'Old Hundredth'.

Make it sew: Star Trek The Motion Picture Make-Your-Own Costume Book. Pocket Books, 1979.

Lord Of The Spiders, by Michael Moorcock. NEL, 1971.