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eBook: $7.96 A novel of first-person tendency documenting several weeks in the life of a budding writer (Michael Savage) as he confronts the challenges of working alone and grappling with the problem of 'limits', both private and public, that forms the leitmotiv of the work, which was John O'Loughlin's first concerted attempt, dating from 1976 and suggesting the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre, at the so-called 'philosophical novel'.
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eBook: $9.55 A philosophic-cum-romantic novel in which a young writer becomes involved with the wife of an influential publisher and ends-up paying the price, as does a certain philosopher friend of his, whose double-dealing in connection with a mutual girlfriend proves more difficult to manage than he had at first suspected, putting him at cross-purposes with them both!
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eBook: $9.55 When an experienced magazine correspondent suddenly becomes sick before he can carry out his assignment, a young comparatively inexperienced colleague is deputized to interview world-famous composer Howard Tonks in his stead, and things don't work out as planned for either of them! In fact, they go from bad to worse in ways which put not only the assignment, but the reputation of the magazine in serious jeopardy, threatening the livelihoods of both correspondents. Can a resolution to the dilemma in which the magazine subsequently finds itself be found, or will it be obliged to compensate the aggrieved party in some financially or socially compromising way? Find out for yourself.
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eBook: $9.55 A young artist who has belatedly renewed relations with an old female acquaintance gradually finds himself becoming disillusioned with her and drawn towards one of her friends instead, though not without first having to deal with the mother of his original girlfriend whose amorous advances toward him are in consequence of marital incompatibilities which this novel takes a sympathetic interest in, despite the paradoxical outcome.
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eBook: $7.96 Logan is a radical - I mean radical - writer whose influence on an art critic who happens to be an acquaintance of his is more than one might expect for two such different people, and certainly not to the tastes of Thurber's publishers! But it has a peculiar and ultimately salutary effect on his personal relations with a certain Greta Ryan, who also figures prominently in this most comic of John O'Loughlin's novels.
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eBook: $9.55 A young writer of radically religious tendency is invited to spend the first weekend of the New Year at a country house in the company of other creative or talented individuals who have been earmarked, unbeknownst to themselves, for participation in a unique experiment in connection with a certain revolutionary museum,whose contents are even more sublimated than the relationships that artificially develop between guests and patrons both before and after their enlightenment. A deeply philosophical novel.
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eBook: $7.96 When a drop-out and rejected writer happens by chance upon an 'old flame' in the basement of a London restaurant one day, a week or so before Christmas, he precipitates a series of events that neither of them could have foreseen, leaving two women dead and one seriously ill, the latter of whom was with his 'old flame' on the day in question.
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eBook: $7.96 Recovering in Norfolk from years of depression in London, an ex-writer-turned-painter by name of Jason Crilly becomes professionally involved with the depiction of a revolutionary sexual machine invented by one of his neighbours, a certain Edmond Shead, and later discovers that his wife, whom he had thought faithful, has been having an affair with the local doctor whilst he was away in London - ostensibly on business but actually conducting an affair of his own! Subsequently they agree to a divorce on grounds of incompatibility, but not before his own personal contribution to the sexual machine leads to her becoming pregnant at the expense of Dr Richardson, her unsuspecting new husband. Truly a comic novel of gargantuan proportions!
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eBook: $4.77 A lonely writer of radically philosophic tendency is visited by an old acquaintance one evening and becomes, to his considerable surprise, amorously involved with her and, subsequently, willing to take on responsibility, outside of marriage, for her teenage daughter, whom he tutors, once she has come of age, in the ways of post-atomic integrities.
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eBook: $4.77 A first-person autobiographical account of one man's disillusionment with sex and transmutation of his sexuality, via sublimated erotica, into an approach to sex which is purely theoretical in its analysis of the probable connections between sex and politics, not least in terms of a given political orientation having a corresponding or correlative sexual orientation which may or may not be the motive for such a politics in the first place.
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