Friday 3 August 2018

The three books that I am working on

Here are the covers of the three books that I am currently working on.


Book that I am working on #1. Planet Zhelanie (Novel)
Cover illustrated by Sofia Lindgren


Book that I am working on #2 - Collected Essays.
Titles: 2001, Cinema as a Platonic Ideal; Jazz and Democracy; It's a Wonderful Life and the New Deal; Literary Creativity in Cinema; The 1950s and the 1990s, Prosperous Complacency; The Communal Town and the Liberal City; Paganism in the Fiction of J. G. Ballard; A Comparison Between the Internet and The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges.
Cover designed by me (hence the amateurishness).


Book that I am working on #3 - Fifteen Characters: Loners and Altruists (short story collection).
Characters: Edward Heath (British politician, Loner, 1916-2005), Charles Crumb (American cartoonist, Loner, 1942-1992) Jo Cox (British politician, Altruist 1974-2016,), Charlie Parker (jazz musician, loner, 1920-1955), Edgard Varese (Franco-American composer, Loner, 1883-1965), Marcelo Bielsa (Argentinean football manager, Loner, 1955-), Bobby Fischer (American chess player, Loner, 1943-2008), Clement Attlee (British politician, altruist, 1883-1967), Meister Eckhart, German theologian and philosopher, Loner, 1260-1328), Otto von Bismarck (Minister/President of Prussia and Chancellor of Germany, 1815-1898), Ferdinand Lasalle (French politician, Altruist, 1825-1864), Diogones the Cynic (Greek philosopher, Loner, c. 412 bc-323 bc), Hannah Arendt (German-American philisopher, altruist, 1906-1975), Gordon Brown (British politician, altruist, 1951-), Karlheinz Stockhausen (German composer, loner, 1928-2007).
I seem to be partial to dead white men - please lynch me.

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