Month: July 2020

“Fatal Empires” is a sweeping saga of life in Oceania in the colonial period when European powers thought they had a right to take over whatever other land they could colonise.

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In Germany in the 1920’s some farsighted people could see the rising dangers. Among them the heroes of the novel “As Though Everything Depended On Me”, talented journalists who paid a heavy price for their stance.

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An ancient people disappeared soon after the arrival of European settlers. Disappeared? Partly through violence, but mainly due to arrogant ignorance — and even in the most famous case, narrated in “Paradise Stolen”, by a desire to help.

 

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Life was rather grim in USSR just before its collapse, and everyone thought something had to change. It did change, though the outcome could not be foreseen. Many a detail of that momentous time is described in “Love Amid the Ruins”.

 

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Is it possible to return to a less industrialised, more nature-bound way of life? That is one of the questions thrown up by the adventure novel “God Has No Church”.

 

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“Fatal Empires” tells of a Russian scientist sent to colonise a tropical island, but instead becomes an anti-imperialist. That costs him, but he then worked against colonialism in the Australian colony of Queensland.

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As Though Everything Depended On Me” tells the story of genuinely good Germans who foresaw what a catastrophe the Nazis would prove to be (even they did not guess the full extent of the horror). That foresight was also a death warrant.

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For many on the left 1968 was, despite the murder of many prominent people, a time of hope: it seemed possible to change the world. Read how one conservative young Englishman experienced that in “Winter 1968”.

 

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