If anyone is around Wolverhampton the pop up bookshop is back now for a couple of weeks and they are having a summer clearance sale where all books are half listed price. It is in the Community Hub on the ground floor of the Mander Centre. I don’t know if I’ll manage it this time but I am down to just using a stick when out and about so possibly sometime in the last week. The photo is of getting ready which requires a lot of hard work so if you do go because of this post please mention to them you saw it here as I do try to give them a plug every time.
Fellow PAN Fan Gavin Scott, novelist, broadcaster and writer of the Emmy-winning mini-series “Mists of Avalon”, Dreamworks’ “Small Soldiers”, Working Title’s “The Borrowers” and Sci Fi’s “Legends of Earthsea”, has updated his page mentioning his love of PAN books. I’m not sure if the part where he mentions Duncan Forrester possibly reading a PAN book was down to me as I did suggest this at one time.
Every now and again I actually read one of the books in my PAN collection which comes as a surprise to me as well. This time it was ‘Cause of Death’ by Frank Smyth. of which I have two editions both dated 1982 and identical apart from cover and price of which the latter is the only way I can really tell which came first. Once again I am left wondering why PAN felt the need to change the cover in so short a space of time and why a mention of an foreword by Colin Wilson got dropped? I actually prefer the simpler earlier one. I’ve also included ‘I’m Jack’ as it is the only other PAN title bearing the name of Frank Smyth I can find.
I’ve not got desperate enough to watch ‘Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters’ on ITV but I did like the way they had based the introductory title on the book/poster. Just a pity they didn’t used the ‘teeth’ font Ken Hatherley designed for the PAN edition of ‘Jaws
