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John Fraser
Fraser’s latest fictional tour de force is a novel about lossNloss of memory, of love, of money, of friends. The protagonist searches throughout the book for a suitcaseNmaybe valuable in…
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John Fraser’s latest literary tour de force Enterprising Women is a sequence of stories of women in difficult circumstances, who contrive to avoid - and sometimes cause - the worst…
The theme of the three stories that make up John Fraser’s brilliant new literary tour de force ‘Animal Tales’ is sacrifice. Sacrifice for others, for those close to one, or…
John Fraser’s ‘Enterprising Women is a sequence of stories of women in difficult circumstances, who contrive to avoid - and sometimes cause - the worst of consequences. In 'The Flies’…
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Fraser’s Hard Places consists of three novellas, Red Snow, The Rock and The Sea, which focus on human struggles with nature and human natures.
Three Beauties is John Fraser’s latest tour de force in speculative fiction. Beauty is an idea of perfection, moral, physical, social, political - and these three tales, with their beautiful…
The Red Bird is the latest work of speculative fiction by John Fraser of whom the distinguished poet and Booker Prize nominee John Fuller has recently written: ‘I am convinced…
The Red Bird is a novel about the failure of people’s hopes, dreams, ambitions and utopias. Driven by economics, curiosity and ignorance, a group of habitues of The Empty Room…
After a convulsive war that rumbles on for thirty years a disparate group search amongst the metal skeletons, detritus and urban wreckage of a shattered land for a new life.
A lawyer looks for the tiny rock of guilt in a sea of innocence. A lawyer looks for the tiny rock of innocence in a sea of guilt. That’s their…
Where are we? Where are we going? What’s in store? John Fraser’s The Answer considers these questions in four stories: The colours of air, Peace and war, Interlude, and The…
Two thematically linked stories. In Candice - echoing Voltaire’s Candide, a disillusioned idealist and world traveller, and Zadig, the last wise, just king of Babylon - Candice sets out to…
Three stories about The Ends of the Earth: ‘Rain is a tale of competition, jealousy, distraction. In Summer Nights’ the protagonists live at the edge of modernity - in the…
We are all refugees seeking an entry to somewhere when we’ve left somewhere else. Our knowledge is a raft that’s carried us on lumpy seas. We can forget all that…
Thinking Scientifically is John Fraser’s latest wildly original, experimental work of fiction: three stories (‘The Opera’, ‘Round the World’, ‘The Shaft’) centred on one theme: while we can think scientifically…
The first volume of John Fraser's selected short stories and novellas features:
The White Room (from Animal Tales)
Sheep (from Happy Always)
The Scorpions (from Enterprising Women)
Lenin in the…
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
Title: Canadian Pen and Ink Sketches.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
The humorous chap-books of Scotland is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and…
Is the Poltergeist ‘Syndrome’ the only type of paranormal phenomena that can really be proven?
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‘S’ is a novel about what makes a person a person - and a ‘good’ person or ‘bad’ one - and poses the question: What do we become when we…
What is victory? What would victory actually be in our present world? What would revolution be - and what would happen after? In John Fraser’s latest novel, Mack leaves his…
In John Fraser’s latest novel, Down from the Stars, an assistant to a distinguished astrophysicist, is tormented by the fate of the Soviet space dog, Laika, incinerated above the earth…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
John Fraser’s latest work of fiction, Happy Always, asks: what is human culture? Does it change through time, or is it always rooted in our species, the animal within? Do…
Two stories of how aspiration is suited to a reflective life rather than long happenstance. In O the Poor Horses a super-athlete, climber and circus star aims to reach the…
Where are we? Where are we going? What’s in store? John Fraser’s novel The Answer considers these questions in four stories: ‘The Colours of Air’, ‘Peace and War’, ‘Interlude’ and…
Happiness needs time - you need to know what the past was like and, even more inscrutable, what the future might entail.
Torsten is an agent, travelling with the overbearing…
A novel containing three thematically linked stores. Two Palestinians escape to humble, humiliating work in Belgium. A bright country girl, seduced by her teacher, seeks speed, which does not end…
Confessions is about seeking accomplices and pardoners. The novel follows the branches of a family tree, rooted in the life of an alcoholic and his accomplice-therapist, and their descendants. Their…
Chaucer to Longfellow - A choice selection of lectures on English literature; giving a comprehensive survey of the Saxon language; and how to master it. Vol. 2 is an unchanged…
A selection of John Fraser’s short stories and poems together with the novella ‘Black Masks’. The distinguished poet, novelist and Booker Prize nominee John Fuller has written of Fraser’s fiction:
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The theme of the three stories that make up John Fraser’s latest literary tour de force, Animal Tales, is sacrifice. Sacrifice for others, for those close to one, or as…
Blue Light comprises two novellas by John Fraser: Blue Light: After the End and Starting Over.We may like to imagine we know what the end of the world will be…
In Down from the Stars, John Fraser’s latest speculative novel, an assistant to a distinguished astrophysicist, is tormented by the fate of the Soviet space dog, Laika, incinerated above the…
John Fraser’s Medusa is a stunning fable for our times, in which the stories of Medusa, the Gorgon and the French ship Medusa are intertwined to create a Pilgrim’s Progress…
The Magnificent Wurlitzer is an epic work of literary fiction, divided into four parts. Its theme is that of the ‘guilty Faust’ on a fantastic, grotesque journey seeking his truth…
The death of the Queen was only the beginning for the men and women behind the Crown.
On September 8, 2022, an announcement was posted on the gates of Balmoral…
John Fraser explores a paradox about the USA: that a country dedicated to rationality, progress, equality and success has always had a strong attachment to the medieval ideas of nobility…
John Fraser’s critical essays explore conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns that touch these essays are ideas of energy, power, and personal plenitude, and the way in…
