Thursday 28 April 2011

FORGOTTEN BOOKS


As you can see there is a pile of books out there - some with remembered titles while others lie forgotten.

Derrick Wright's 'Siege At Ma-Kouie' was originally published by Robert Hale in 1957.
The French Foreign Legion take on the Viet-Minh army just prior to the battle of Dien Bein Phu.

'Who Was Then The Gentleman?' is a novel of the Peasants Revolt of 1381. Charles E. Israel brings Wat Tyler to life in a story that contrasts the poverty and injustice of the time with the luxury and indifference of the court of Richard the Second.

Long before the movie trilogy Robert Heinlein told the story of Johnny Rico and the 'Starship Troopers'.

Back in 1960 the Daily Mail said that Constantine Fitz Gibbons novel, 'When The Kissing Had To Stop', relegated Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World to the nursery. With a portrayal of pitched battles between armed police and gangsters; race riots and a Ban The Bomb movement that sweeps a meglomaniac into power - and allows the Russians to occupy Britain. A novel that seemed, at the time, to trigger a number of cold war political thrillers on a similar theme - one by a certain Douglas Hurd.

Next week we will kick off with the only novel written by a British Jazz pianist and biographer of Frank Sinatra.

MUSIC - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE


OPEN RANGE will, also, take a look at the music of the past - some of which may have become forgotten.
Like the syncopated sounds of The Temperence Seven who were driven crazy in the sixties or the eighties Italian queen of Europop, Spagna, who urged every boy and girl to call her.
We will take a look at new heavy metal all girl group Hysterica and Scandinavian symphonic rock star Issa.
There is a lot of good stuff out there and we hope to entertain you with some of it.

RIDING BACK


OPEN RANGE is coming back.
Yes, with more of the same and some other stuff as well.
As the title of this blog suggests the range is wide open. So for a while we'll be throwing out hints at what is to come and the direction we plan to go in.

The last piece we did attracted 60 - yep, SIXTY - spammers with nothing better to do with their time. They don't get published anyway.
Hopefully, they have got whatever it is out of their system and we can get with the business of what we do best.