• 1. An American Kind of Book 2. The Bestseller Machine and its Diverse Products 3. The Godfather 4. The Novels of Arthur Hailey 5. Frighteners of the 1970s: Children of the Dark 6. Women's Fiction I: The Thorn Birds 7. Women's Fiction II: Liberation and Female Masochism - Erica Jong and the 'bodice rippers' 8. Star Wars 9. Alastair Maclean and James Clavell 10. Jaws 11. Harold Robbins: the roman à clef I 12. the roman à clef II 13. Full Disclosure: Research and Insider Novels 14. Death Wish: From Stetson to Hard Hat 15. The 'New Western' and the Middle-Aged Reader 16. Images of War I: Secret Histories 17. Images of War II: The Nightmare that Wouldn't Die 18. Fashionable Crime I: Hijack 19. Fashionable Crime II: Embezzlement - the man with the Briefcase 20. QB VII and the Bestselling Novel after Auschwitz 21. Nightmare and Medicare: Coma 22. Documentary, Superdocumentary and Technology 23. Disaster 24. British Pessimism: the 'as if' Narratives.

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