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Book cover designs by Len Deighton - 4
The Southerner by Douglas Kiker - 1958
Published by André Deutsch, this novel is about a decent, fairminded Southerner who's break in journalism coincides with the tumult of the struggle for black emancipation in America.
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The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler - 1963
An intriguing story by a Canadian author about the exploits of an Inuit poet - Atuk - as he is exposed to the delights of civilisation in Toronto. A satirical view of Canadian life in the sixties.
Free Love and Heavenly Sinners by Robert Shaplen - 1956
Another book from the extensive André Deutsch commissions of 1956, this book is about the scandal of US preacher Henry Ward, who in the 1870s had a scandalous affair with one of his parishioners.