Please note, as of 28 December 2023, the Password to secure access to protected pages has been changed. Check Password to see the latest version.
The February 2021 "Covid Diary" emails are now posted
Important Notice: The Covid Diary is now a password protected part of this site. This website exists primarily to support Lasserrade Press publications and to publicise Alan Kennedy’s other non-fiction publications. Rather than transfer the Covid Diary contents as a whole to substack or some other pay-to-view platform it seems not unreasonable to restrict access to Lasserrade Press readers. Password protection employs the model familiar to readers of “Mixed Moss” essays. The password is a series of words from the print or kindle versions of a designated book. The chosen text will change from time to time. Click password to discover the text for the current password.
Paperback and Kindle versions of the novel The War and Alex Vere are now available.
Lasserrade Press YouTube channel
Currently (Orange, France permitting the upload) reading Oscar & Lucy. We have reached Chapter 3.
A Covid Diary
Emails sent by AK during the three (French) years of the “Covid” crisis were directed to authors, artists, professional psychologists, and “interested others.”
Notwithstanding the temptation to forget (or even forgive), these frequently baffled communications provide a useful aide-memoire to times when things fell apart. Navigate to “A Covid Diary”. Updated regularly, we have reached December, 2020.
[Older News]
The talk The Debacle at Durham is available on the Lasserrade Press youtube channel.
Navigate to Essays to find On Nudging - a comment on the use of psychological technques to secure public compliance during the "Covid" pandemic.
Navigate to Essays to find Beautiful Untrue Things: Reflections on Arthur Ransome, Karl Radek, Oscar Wilde and the art of lying. An edited version of this essay appeared in the August 2022 edition of the Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society.
Navigate to Essays to find a short extract from the Afterword to the new edition of The Boat in the Bay. The book will be released in summer 2022.
A Thoroughly Mischievous Person - The Other Arthur Ransome.
Described by Peter Willis, Editor of Signals, as "the best piece of writing on Ransome to have come out in years," this book was published on 30 September 2021 by The Lutterworth Press. For further details please visit the Lutterworth Press website.
Mixed Moss - New Essays
New (password protected) articles published in the Journal of The Arthur Ransome Society have been posted. Navigate to the Mixed Moss page for further details and extracts.
French Visitors
Please navigate to Visitors
Reviews
The "Reviews" page (long neglected) has been updated.
Self -Publishing
Navigate to the Blog for essays (diatribes/rants) on aspects of the self-publishing business.
The Psychology of Reading
For more information and means to purchase please visit the Taylor & Francis website.