New English Library (NEL) was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small British paperback companies, Ace Books Ltd and Four Square Books Ltd, as a complement to its 1960 acquisition of New American Library in the United States.[1] NEL's top bestseller of the 1960s was The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins.[2]
The brand continued as a mass-market imprint for Hodder Headline, focussing on thrillers and horror, until 2004 when it was dropped following Hodder's assimilation into the Hachette Livre group, and a single Hodder & Stoughton paperback list was created, combining the NEL titles then in print with those in Hodder's previous Coronet (mainstream) and Flame (young and contemporary) paperback lines.[6]
^Thomas L. Bonn, Uneasy Lie the Heads: New American Library in Transition in Fred Kobrak, Beth Luey (eds.), The Structure of International Publishing in the 1990s, Transaction Publishers, 1992.
^Andrew Wilson, Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007, p. 153.
^"WriteWords: New English Library". Retrieved 24 May 2006.
^Gary Dobbs, "Great Paperback Publishers: New English Library", tainted-archive.blogspot.com.au. Retrieved on 24 October 2016.
^Nicholas Clee, "The Bookseller", The Guardian, 25 September 2004.
^Four Square Books (Four Square Books; New English Library) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
^Four Square Classics (New English Library Ltd.) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
^Old Pan/NEL books - complete list of titles, sffchronicles.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
^Publication Series: NEL SF Master Series, isfdb.org. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
Further reading
Justin Marriott (ed.), A Visual Guide To New English Library: Volume One (Nov. 2010) A5, 88pp.
April 11, 2023
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