John O'Loughlin (1)

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2014
  • Latest Book:
    June 2014
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Cross-Purposes

    A deeply philosophical novel with romantic overtones that stretches the imagination towards both comic and tragic situations in which the principal characters find their friendship tested by the conflicting pressures of ambition and class....

  • An Interview Reviewed

    A philosophic-cum-romantic novel based around an interview that backfires and results in various complications for both the interviewer and his magazine, which are not without ironic and humorous overtones which require some kind of paradoxical resol...

  • Logan's Influence

    Invited to a party by his friend Martin Thurber, the avant-garde writer Keith Logan quickly begins to turn their host against him by his radical views on God, evolution, religion, literature, etc., with a result that he quite spoils the party atmosph...

  • Michael Savage

    A two-book volume of autobiographical/philosophical fiction comprised of the novels 'Changing Worlds' and 'Fixed Limits', both of which feature the character Michael Savage in a variety of roles and sitatuations as he resolves, in the first book, to ...

  • Secret Exchanges

  • Thwarted Ambitions

    The first of three loosely-related novels written by John O'Loughlin in 1980 and dealing with art and artists, 'Thwarted Ambitions' is the tragic and, in a sense, pathetic account of a young artist by name of Robert Harding who is so obsessed with ad...

  • A Visit to Hell

    A collection of short prose with philosophical and occult overtones that shows the influence of philosopher-of-history Oswald Spengler in its title piece, 'A Visit to Hell', as well as much interesting theorizing about the nature of mankind....

  • Changing Worlds

    John O'Loughlin's first novel, written during the summer of 1976, is a largely autobiographical account of three days in the life of a clerk-turning-writer Michael Savage, whose disillusionment with the drudgery of office work has led him to quit his...

  • Dream Compromise

    This collection of short prose, originally dating from the autumn of 1981, includes what is arguably the most literary piece John O'Loughlin has ever written - namely 'A Canine Crime', which deals with the problems of dog ownership in an age and soci...



  • Fixed Limits

    If John O'Loughlin's first novel 'Changing Worlds' betrays the influence (through souped-up interior monologue) of James Joyce on his early fiction, then the chief inspiration behind this fictional journal was undoubtedly Jean-Paul Sartre or, rather,...

  • From the Devil to God

    Written on and off during the winter of 1980-81, this collection of short prose starts in a relatively literary fashion, with the account of a clandestine visit of a masseuse to a priest who can no longer cope with his celibacy, and ends in a profoun...

  • Millennial Projections

    This substantial literary project, dating from 1982, is comprised of some sixteen short-prose pieces with subjects ranging from musical evolution to Christmas trees, Black Holes to Esperanto, and space travel to modern art. Of this number, the author...

  • Sublimated Relations

    A young religious writer named Timothy Byrne accepts an invitation from a certain Lord Handon, an aristocratic admirer of his work, to spend New Year's Eve in the company of a select gathering at Rothermore House, Handon's country retreat, and he win...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John O'Loughlin (1) has published 13 books.

John O'Loughlin (1) does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fixed Limits, was published in June 2014.

The first book by John O'Loughlin (1), Cross-Purposes, was published in May 2014.

No. John O'Loughlin (1) does not write books in series.
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