Other Books by Sean Gabb
Hampden Press, London, 2014
ISBN: 9781311160829
A thriller in the style of John Buchan and Sapper and the early Ian Fleming, The Churchill Memorandum presents an exciting alternative history of the twentieth century.
Imagine a world in which Hitler died in 1939. No World War II. No US-Soviet duopoly of the world. No slide into the gutter for England.
Anthony Markham doesn’t need to imagine. It is now 1959, and this is the only world he knows. England is still England. The Queen-Empress is on her throne. The pound is worth a pound. Lord Halifax is Prime Minister, and C.S. Lewis is Archbishop of Canterbury. All is right with the world—or with that quarter of it lucky enough to repose under an English heaven.
Not surprisingly, Markham loves England. He worships England. Never mind that he’s Indian on his mother’s side, and not entirely as he’d like to be seen in one other respect: he keeps these little faults hidden—oh, very well hidden!
Now, twenty years after Hitler’s death in a car accident, he is taking leave of a nightmarish, totalitarian America. He has a biography to write of a dead and largely forgotten Winston Churchill, and has had to travel to where the old drunk left his papers. But little does he realise, as he returns to his safe, orderly England, that he carries, somewhere in his luggage, an object that can be used to destroy England and the whole structure of bourgeois civilisation as it has been gradually restored since 1918.
Who is trying to kill Anthony Markham? For whom is Major Stanhope really working? Where did Dr Pakeshi get his bag of money? Is there a connection between Michael Foot, Leader of the British Communist Party, and Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan? Why is Ayn Rand in an American prison, and Nathaniel Branden living in a South London bedsit? Why is Alan Greenspan dragged off and shot in the first chapter? Where does Enoch Powell fit into the story?
Above all, what is the Churchill Memorandum? What terrible secrets does it contain?
All will be revealed—but not till after Markham has gone on the run through an England unbombed, uncentralised, still free, and still mysterious.
How might our country have turned out but for that catastrophic declaration of war in defence of Poland? Read on and wonder….
The Churchill Memorandum is a thriller, a black comedy and a satire. It is the first novel in Sean Gabb’s “England Trilogy.”
Hampden Press, London, 2014
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ISBN: 9781310247996
In this second part of his “England Trilogy,” Sean Gabb leaves alternative history for dystopian fantasy.
No one knows what caused The Break eleven months ago, but there’s no sign of its end.
England is settling into its new future as a reindustrialising concentration camp. The rest of the world is watching… waiting… curious…
It’s Wednesday the 7th March 2018 – in the mainland UK. Everywhere else, it’s some time in June 1065.
Jennifer thinks her family survived The Hunger because of their smuggling business – tampons and paracetamol to France, silver back to England. Little does she know what game her father was really playing, as she recrosses the Channel from an impromptu mission of her own. Little can she know how her life has already been torn apart.
Who has taken Jennifer’s parents? Where are they? What is the Home Secretary up to with the Americans? Why is she so desperate to lay hands on Michael? Will Jesus Christ return to Earth above Oxford Circus? When will the “Doomsday Project” go live?
Can the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church take on the British State, and win?
All will be answered – if Jennifer can stay alive in a post-apocalyptic London terrorised by hunger, by thugs in uniform, and by motorbike gangs of Islamic suicide bombers.
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Hampden Press, London, 2014
ISBN: (Forthcoming)
Edward Parker is getting old. He’s overweight. His knees are going. So are his teeth. His career as a barrister has been mediocre at best. Family aside, his main outside interest lies in libertarian politics. All this has given him is a ringside seat for watching England’s descent into a grotty police state, riddled with political correctness and police brutality.
Oh, but there’s also his dream life. This is vivid and spectacular in all the ways that real life isn’t. In particular, the dreams he’s been having since childhood of a primaeval city, inhabited by reptilian bipeds, are almost a second life.
Then he opens his eyes into his most vivid and spectacular dream of all. He’s an undergraduate again at the University of York. It’s Monday, the 16th February 1981. In great things and in little, everything seems at first exactly as it had been.
Only it isn’t.
As the dream unfolds, and shows no appearance of ending, deviation after deviation from the remembered past accumulate, and settle into the appearance of a coherent narrative. But where is this taking young Edward parker? What is his old “friend” Cruttling up to? Where have all his real friends gone? What secret lurks in the vast Temple of Isis being uncovered behind the main library? Why is Professor Fairburn so desperate to lay hands on that secret? Will Margaret Thatcher get what she wants?
Above all, what do other dreams keep bleeding into this one?
Or is this a dream? If it isn’t what does it mean for and England not yet in the gutter, but only hovering on the kerb?
In this concluding part of his “England Trilogy,” Sean Gabb leaves both alternative history and dystopian fantasy. The York Deviation is a novel about second chances—second chances for its narrator, and perhaps for England too.
Hampden Press, London, 2007, 120pp
Second Edition 2014 (Forthcoming)
ISBN: 9780954103224
An Anglican Bishop nearly arrested for stating Church doctrine. Villagers actually arrested for making fun of gypsies. Museums stripped of “imperialist” symbols. This is life in the Britain of today.
“Political correctness gone mad” some will say. Not so, says Sean Gabb. In this short book, he explains how England in particular, and the English-speaking world in general, have been conquered from within.
We face a new ruling class made up of the student radicals of the 1960s and 70s. Now in power, they are creating in their own behaviour all the corruption and bigotry and hypocrisy that they falsely alleged against the liberal democratic rulers they have replaced.
This being so, the leading writers of the “New Left”—Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, and Michel Foucault—become highly relevant for conservatives and libertarians. They are relevant not because their analysis of liberal democracy was correct, but because it explains what their disciples are trying to do.