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The first comprehensive account of the rise of youth culture and mass-market paperback fiction in the post-war period, Beat Girls, Love Tribes And Real Cool Cats is a must-read for anyone interested in retro and subcultural style and popular fiction. Featuring over 300 pulp covers, many never before reprinted, as well 70 in-depth author interviews and biographies, articles and reviews, Ian McIntyre and Andrew Nette's Beat Girls offers the most extensive survey of the era's mass market pulp fiction ever published.

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Iain McIntyre is a Melbourne-based author, musician and community radio broadcaster who has written a number of books on activism, history and music, including How To Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Protest, Graffiti and Political Mischief-Making from Across Australia (PM Press, 2013), Wild About You: The Sixties Beat Explosion in Australia and New Zealand (Verse Chorus Press, 2010), and Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-70 (Wakefield Press, 2006). Andrew Nette is a Melbourne crime writer and journalist. His first novel, Ghost Money, was published in 2012. He is a founder of Crime Factory Publications, a press specialising in crime fiction, and has written extensively in the area of pulp fiction, including for his website Pulp Curry.

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