Bøger af A Colin Wright

Three one-act comedies.George's Funeral: Everything goes wrong at a funeral, including the appearance of the corpse's ghost. Jennifer's Wedding: Things go awry at a wedding rehearsal with the result that two different couples (one of the same sex) are eventually married. Nora's Anniversary: Nora and Laurence are about to go to an anniversary party with their son, his partner, and Laurence's former secretary, when Nora's previous husband, Alan, long believed dead, turns up.

Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS The Last of the Time Machines describes a machine that can pick up traces of the earth's atmosphere 'recorded' on its surroundings - as in a tape-recorder - but to use it one must work in real time. Moreover, travel in it is limited by modern construction and to those places it can reach, so it must be provided with wheels and a scissor-lift to raise it to upper storeys. With miniaturization anyone can have one, and the police use it for solving crimes. But this creates such chaos on the roads that it is finally banned, except for its inventor, who is allowed to keep his own, using it for fulltime research into his two major questions about the past. In It's Paradise, by God! angels in Heaven - incarnations of historical figures - must repeatedly go down to Earth to play through past history, or God, The Old Man, will become upset. They try to revolt by 'learning their parts' wrongly, but God tricks them with a special entertainment he has devised.

Gerald Clayton suffering from Amnesia, receives a package of papers from Veronica, a former clinical hypnotist.She tells him they accomplish his fantasy of gathering together, on the ship Marguerite, his past loves with the two of them present, but in disguise.In hopes of discovering his own past Gerald invites the passengers to share in a mystery by guessing what, or who, they all have in common.Veronica's Papers by A. Colin Wright has an amazing premise that makes the reader think about the likelihood and outcome of such an experiment in his or her own life.Well-developed characters like Gerald Clayton, who finds himself in a nursing-home after losing his memory; his wife Elizabeth; and Veronica Castell (who has assembled papers documenting Gerald's life along with other people from Gerald's past) help the reader understand Gerald's and Veronica's thought processes.The unlikely setting is a cruise ship named Marguerite. This ship is of British registry, sailing out of Southampton to a variety of destinations like the Azores and the Canary Islands. Passengers receive an invitation (Compliments of 'Creative Travel') awarding them a fully paid seven-day cruise for two that includes a special program geared to meet their individual needs and interests.The intensity of the author's style of writing is evident when he writes: "Humans are like individual atoms jostling in time and space in a constantly changing relationship, and every so often what we call chance brings together those who've met before so that we wonder whether there isn't some further purpose. But what of the coincidences that fail to become evident? The odds against Janet's being on the other side of that train were almost as great, but we'd never have known we were even close. How often have we been in such situations without knowing it? Only our ignorance prevents us from calling those coincidences and from seeing the basic oneness of life."A. Colin Wright causes the reader to think and question mortality with its limitations in relationship to moral and spiritual concerns. This passage is an example: "The tragedy is that Christianity could be so much more. Christ's words, it seems to me, rarely limit people to a narrow morality. Rather it's Saint Paul and those who followed, more concerned with establishing orthodoxy under the leadership of a politically powerful church-who brought a small-minded understanding to a vision that encompasses all people's strivings. Christians simply couldn't tolerate rivals: a pettiness repeated often enough since. Yet there's no contradiction between the worship of pagan gods, say, and that of Christ, for the reality they represent is the same. Why couldn't Christianity have had vision enough to see this?"Cold Coffee Press endorses Veronica's Papers by A. Colin Wright as a thought-provoking work of literature that raises the question of whether or not "creation, fantasy and truth are the same". We received this book in a Kindle/PDF format. This review was completed on October 31, 2015.

Charles Fraser, a businessman, goes back to a house in the Hebrides that he owns with his sister, Janet, but he discovers that she has let it out without his knowledge to a group of lay sisters so they may run it as a charity institution for religious women who have fallen on hard times. Sister Margaret was formerly in prison with Janet; a new arrival, Candice, is on probation; and Sister Alice is a kleptomaniac. Charles tries to have them turned out, but an accident forces him to stay, and he becomes attracted to the younger Sister Fiona. However, he is still determined to go to the police. But when he finally gets away, he is arrested for some money he had misappropriated.

The novel is set largely during the last days and immediate post-war years of WWII, in the British and Soviet Zones (later German Democratic Republic) of Berlin. Hermine (whose name comes from a novel by Hermann Hesse, proscribed by the Nazis) marries an English academic, Duncan, who encourages her to write her own account. This relates to her complicated experience of (English) Michael, his brother Henry (Heinrich), her German father Wartmann and others. Falling in love with Henry, she heartily dislikes Michael, whose only desire is to seduce as many women as possible.From the Preface: "If one looks at the events leading to World War Two and resulting from it, it is all too easy to condemn the Germans. How could a highly civilized people have turned to the doctrine of Fascism as dictated by a vicious racist and psychopath? All of this, though, leads to a more basic question: could I, had I been brought up in a different society, ever have behaved in a similar fashion?""Henry found himself dreaming: "Oh I'm clever, oh I'm great. I rule. Eurore shudders at my might. I the Fuhrer, the artist they rejected: fools like all rest. I the people, I the nation, I the leader. Cheering me, admiring, fearing me. . . A Berlin of the mind, split between East and West, two hemispheres, left and right, now with an irrevocable dividing wall and the greatest tension at the crossover from one side to another. A peaceful man, a dull man even ... A house in the country, and if I had children there'd be... what is it? . . . 1.7 of them. And there were no signposts. That was the thing about wartime Britain too: so as not to assist the enemy should he invade across the divide all the signs were removed."From Chapter One, Hermine: " I was raised in a concentration camp, without which my whole story would have been different. North of Berlin, Ravensbrück was specifically for women and, of course, their children. You can visit the museum there today and see the memorial, which was set up by the Soviets when Berlin was part of East Germany, and part of my story too."

A brief discussion of religious ideas from a non-traditional viewpoint that should be of interest for all those questioning what life is all about. For more about the author, see www.acolinwright.ca and www.authorsden.com/acolinwright.