James Moffat (27 January 1922 – 8 November 1993)
was a Canadian-born British writer who wrote at least 290 novels in several genres under at least 45 pseudonyms".
Moffat produced many
pulp
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* Dissolving pulp, highly purified cellulose used in fibre and film manufacture
* Pulp (paper), the fibrous material used to make paper
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novels for the United Kingdom publishing house
New English Library
The New English Library was a United Kingdom book publishing company, which became an imprint of Hodder Headline.
History
New English Library (NEL) was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small B ...
during the 1970s. Moffat's pen names included Richard Allen, Etienne Aubin (''The Terror of the Seven Crypts'') and Trudi Maxwell (''Diary of A Female Wrestler''). Moffat's pulp novels mostly focused on youth
subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, poli ...
s of the late 1960s and 1970s, such as
skinhead
A skinhead is a member of a subculture which originated among working class youths in London, England, in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinhead movement emerging worldwide in th ...
s,
hippies
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and
bikers. In particular Moffat wrote a series of popular and commercially successful books featuring what came to be known as his most famous protagonist, the skinhead
antihero
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Joe Hawkins.
Moffat often expressed admiration for his subject matter and commented on social issues, mostly from a right-wing perspective.
The collected works of Richard Allen were reissued in a six-volume set by ST Publishing in the 1990s. A
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TV documentary about his life, ''Skinhead Farewell'', aired in 1996. Allen's formulaic and sensationalist writing style has been imitated by
. Mark Sargeant wrote a feature in ''Scootering Magazine'' titled ''The Richard Allen Legacy''. An interview titled ''The Return of Joe Hawkins'' with publisher George Marshall was in issue seven of ''Skinhead Times'' (1992).
Under his own name Moffat wrote at least two science fiction novels: ''The Sleeping Bomb'' (New English Library, 1970; US edition 1973, ''The Cambri Plot'') and a ''Queen Kong'' (1977) a movie tie-in to the low-budget
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;Skinhead series
New English Library published 18 Skinhead novels by Richard Allen.
* ''Skinhead'' (June 1970)
* ''Suedehead'' (1971)
* ''Demo'' (1971)
* ''Boot Boys'' (1972)
* ''Skinhead Escapes'' (1972)
* ''Skinhead Girls'' (1972)
* ''Glam'' (1973)
* ''Smoothies'' (1973)
* ''Sorts'' (1973)
* ''Teeny Bopper Idol'' (1973)
* ''Top Gear Skin'' (1973)
* ''Trouble for Skinhead'' (1973)
* ''Skinhead Farewell'' (1974)
* ''Dragon Skins'' (1975)
* ''Terrace Terrors'' (1975)
* ''Knuckle Girls'' (1977)
* ''Punk Rock'' (1977)
* ''Mod Rule'' (1980)