John O Loughlin: 171 books

This title, which is the reverse of 'Michael Savage', dating from 1976, also combines two chronologically-related books, viz. 'Reluctance' and 'Reservations in Orange and Green', but does so in the reverse order of having a journal first and a kind of novel comprised of five notebooks second, so that...

'From Punishment to Grace' is in many respects the sequel to 'From Satan to Saturn' (1994), since it follows a similarly cyclical approach to text, with numbered aphorisms that spiral, through several cycles, towards a philosophical summit which is both an end and the portent of a fresh beginning, with...

Dating from 2001, PATHWAYS TO 'THE KINGDOM' attempts to delineate the approaches to what has been loosely identified with 'Kingdom Come', though the term 'kingdom' would bear scant resemblance to anything autocratic but, rather, derives from common usage and/or expectation in relation to Biblical eschatology,...

'A Trilogy Transcendent' is a kind of loose trilogy of philosophical novels originally written in 1980 and sharing a common transcendental theme which has particular though not exclusive reference to modern art and its examination and appreciation from a pro-avantgarde standpoint (the author's own) that...

A collection of short prose coupled to an aphoristic appendix which has some bearing on most of the contents, this project, originally dating from 1981 but since extensively revised, combines fictional with philosophical themes at a pretty high level in such fashion that they seem to be partners in literary...

This title is comprised of three books of so-called 'abstract poems' which might better be described as 'word art', since they are of a character that defies intellectual intelligibility and invites a certain contemplative frame-of-mind more conducive to spirituality and, hence, to self-transcendence,...

When a drop-out and rejected writer of Irish descent 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...

Eight substantial short stories from the author of 'Cross-Purposes' and 'An Interview Reviewed' (1979), which investigate dualism and transcendentalism from a variety of conflicting standpoints. The title piece is much the longest and probably the most outstanding story in the collection, which has to...

A substantial collection of short stores (prose) which begins with 'Millennial Projections', a three-chapter 'novella' of futuristic science fiction, in which we explore otherworldly possibilities from within a post-human millennium, and concludes, logically enough, with another three-chapter 'novella'...

'Supercontemplations' signifies a creative advance over the lower-case volume of abstract poetry entitled 'Contemplations' (1985), in that it combines upper- and lower-case monosyllabic words in the process of creating patterned entities which, whatever their subliminal message, require only to be contemplated,...

'Judgemental Afterthoughts' concludes a loose trilogy of volumes of aphoristic philosophy beginning and continuing with 'Revelationary Afterthoughts' and 'Revolutionary Afterthoughts', and the 'afterthoughts' here are the product of an author who is not above investigating common slang and verb/noun...

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...

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...

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...