Preserve Ku-ring-gai

With my election on 4 December 2021 as one of the two councillors representing Gordon Ward on Ku-ring-gai Council, council will be my priority throughout my time in office. Thus this website will remain Preserve Ku-ring-gai: Putting residents in control.

From Tuesday 2 November 2021 to Sunday 5 December 2021, this website will be named Preserve Ku-ring-gai: Putting residents in control. During this period, I will add material related to the Gordon Ward election for Ku-ring-gai Council on Saturday 4 December 2021 to the first pages of this website.

This website is normally dedicated to my fiction and non-fiction writing, as described in my posts below. Through this period, the pages related to my writing will follow the pages related to the Gordon Ward election. My fiction writing begins with the page The King of a Vacant City.

My non-fiction writing, beginning with the page The Unnatural West, advocates us reviving our sense of connectedness and thus community and cultural heritage. Fine old homes, theatre, and other culture enrich us all.

My collection of fifteen non-fiction books The West began late in 2006 as an examination of business ethics and other corporate culture, with a thought of earning a Doctorate of Business Administration from Macquarie University. It picked up on the philosophical considerations the subject of the course Foundations of Management Thought, during my studies in 1993 for a Master of Business Administration degree at the same university. Ideas began gestating in my mind early in 2004.

            One point made in that course was that businesses reflect the countries outside. Thus seeking to understand business culture became seeking to understand culture outside. Seeking to understand Western business and how we came to the point at which we are in 2021 is seeking to understand the West and how we came to be where we are in 2021. Changing one changed the other. Saving one saves the other.

            Writing let my thoughts progress. The more I thought, the more I wrote. The more I wrote, the deeper my thoughts.

            The first three of my original eleven books, beginning Western Individualism, were essentially the successors to what I initially envisaged being a thesis about Western business ethics based upon my experiences and observations. The remaining eight books of that eleven were essentially appendices to the first three, examining the West outside and organised into three more series of books: identity, nationalism, and cultures.

            The ensuing four overview books summarised each of the four series: the preceding eleven books. They collated the ideas without the facts behind them, along with more ideas to which they led.

My seven fiction books comprise the following:

Short story collections

Gender in America
Discovering Race

Novels

The King of a Vacant City
Swansong of a Childless People
A Young Man’s Tale
The Insubordinate
Mahmood and Mrs Wynworth

My sixteen non-fiction books comprise the following:

The Individualism of Donald Trump

My fifteen-book collection The West:

The Unnatural West
The Tribeless West
The Homeless West
The Vanishing West

Individualism
Western Individualism
The End of Natural Selection
The Need for Nations

Identity
People’s Identity
Of Whom We’re Born
Biological Us

Nationalism
A Land to Belong
The Failure of Multiculturalism

Cultures
Reclaiming Western Cultures
Christendom Lost
Aiding Islam

The Individualism of Donald Trump, published in 2021, is my first non-fiction book not part of my collection: The West. Nevertheless, it is essentially a case study of the uniquely Western trait unfolding since World War II so central to that collection and to our decline and fall: Western individualism.

With the fifteen books in that collection, I have thus published sixteen non-fiction books in all, along with two collections of short stories and five novels, since I began writing the first of those novels in 2001. The twenty-three books are listed on the Author page of this website.

All the books are available as paperback books and as electronic books (e-books) from all the Amazon sites, including Amazon Australia. Links to the Amazon pages, including free previews, appear on the pages of this website for each book.