In The Lockdown Tales there's an Assistant Professor, Amelia, who falls in love with a student, Grace, whose doctoral thesis she's supervising. She wants Grace in her life and in…
Alan WhelanOctober 19, 2021
It looks like the Alan Whelan Literary Tour will be on again, when restrictions relax. It's not just that it's good value to sell your books on your own behalf,…
Alan WhelanSeptember 26, 2021
Tomorrow I'm going to be promoting my launch, and selling my book, in Pitt Street Mall. Do I have a permit? Not exactly. Not even as such.I expect I'll be…
Alan WhelanMay 25, 2021
The Lockdown Tales has been released! I collected it from storage on 20 April. I was almost afraid to look at it because I'd had a long and disastrous day,…
Alan WhelanMay 14, 2021
The Lockdown Tales follows ten people, seven women and three men, who escape the city in the early stages of Covid-19’s arrival in Australia, and gather at a farm in…
Alan WhelanAugust 14, 2020
A look at the political views of the composer Richard Wagner, an antisemite who was also a pacifist who despised German militarism, an anti-imperialist and an anti-racist who admired Lincoln…
Alan WhelanApril 13, 2020
Byron needed a hero, and came up with Don Juan. Byron’s version of Don Juan, however, is very different from the hero of legend, or even of Mozart’s D0n Giovanni.…
Alan WhelanApril 13, 2020
I am working on Harris versus the Assassins, a sequel to Harris in Underland. It’s set in Persia in 1879, when Harris was lecturing in law at Heidelberg University.
Alan WhelanApril 13, 2020
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