My Arthur and Alfred Story Philip B. Williams, an Englishman abroad, is sharing his memories with us. It’s a look at the world at the End of the British Empire, full of class consciousness. The British crime novel – and not only the British . surely wouldn’t exist without it. Here are his musings No# 5. They are corresponding, somehow, with the end of WW 1… I. During last July’s breathless heat, I visited the grave of Arthur Styles, my granduncle. It was in a quiet verdant cemetery surrounded by a
Read More My Road from Black Mesa Philip B. Williams, an Englishman abroad, is sharing his memories with us. It’s a look at the world at the End of the British Empire, full of class consciousness. The British crime novel – and not only the British . surely wouldn’t exist without it. Here are his musing No# 3. This one is about redemption. I The first sound of trouble was when I heard the thwack-thwack-thwack of a helicopter heading towards our compound from over Navajo Mountain. At first, I assumed it was another
Read More My End of Empire by Philip B. Williams The British crime novel surely wouldn’t exist without some class consciousness. The British Empire was defined by it. Our author was witness to it’s end at a far away place. More of his musings to follow. Last October I went to a Halloween costume party. I dug out an authentic mildewed solar topee, original British army long khaki shorts, and a bedraggled bush jacket that had been moldering in my basement for decades and went dressed as a dissolute British District Commissioner beached in
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