Cirrus@Austlit

A Canberra-based book collector, bibliographer and former public servant, Graeme Flanagan compiled the Australian Vintage Paperback Guide (1994), the the first serious attempt to catalogue the paperback fiction industry. Based largely on his personal collection, one dominated by 1950s crime fiction, the Guide has since proved an invaluable source book for research into Australia popular fiction. Prior to Flanagan's work much of this sort of bibliographic information was held by private collectors or in privately published works such as G. V Hubble's Modern Australian Fiction - A Bibliography, 1940-1965 (1969).