The Kindle version of The Covid Letters (emails sent by AK during the alleged “Covid Crisis”, directed to assorted authors, artists and professional psychologists) was published in December 2024. The Paperback version is available on the LULU site.
From the back cover of the print edition:
"Author and psychologist Alan Kennedy retired to live in rural France in 2010, maintaining extensive email contact with colleagues, acquaintances and rivals. This collection of "letters", addressed to artists, writers, lawyers, fellow psychologists, and members of the public, provides a unique perspective on the Age of Covid as seen from France. Covering the period January 2020 to December 2021 they also offer a brutally frank assessment of the disturbing role played by psychologists in what future generations will see as a wholly corrupt endeavour.
"A deadly disease where you need a test to discover whether you have it - that's a joke isn't it? A completely novel disease that turns out in fact to be an unremarkable member of a family of infectious viruses - so not "completely novel" after all. Isn't it time someone ratted on this nonsense? If you don't need symptoms to define a "disease", watch out, the gas ovens lie that way. A test of unknown specificity with a high false positive rate redefines 'cases' as 'infections.' For God's sake - they will rise indefinitely, ticking off every one who has ever had a cold! When will people notice that there was a nasty disease that has run its course? Don’t they know about Farr's Law?"
Spiced with sardonic humour but never quite despairing, the book bears witness to the stupidity of clever men.
Alan Kennedy is an Honorary Member of the Experimental Psychology Society, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of the Society of Authors. He has held academic posts in universities in Australia, Scotland and France and is the author of over a hundred academic articles; biographies of the psychologist Oscar Oeser and the children’s author Arthur Ransome; and seven novels."
(Cover Image (c) Anastasia Shuraeva).
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.
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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
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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.