John Loughlin: 173 books

Recovering in Norfolk from years of depression in London, an ex-writer turned painter by name of Jason Crilly becomes professionally involved with the depiction of a revolutionary sexual machine invented by one of his neighbours, a certain Edmond Shead, and later discovers that his wife, whom he had...

A young artist who has belatedly renewed relations with an old female acquaintance gradually finds himself becoming disillusioned with her and drawn towards one of her friends instead, though not without first having to deal with the mother of his original girlfriend, whose amorous advances toward him...

When an experienced magazine correspondent suddenly becomes ill before he can carry out his assignment, a young and comparatively inexperienced colleague is deputized to interview world-famous composer Howard Tonks in his stead, and things don't work out as planned for either of them! In fact they go...

A first-person autobiographical account of one man's disillusionment with sex and concomitant transmutation of his sexuality, via sublimated erotica, into an approach to sex which is purely theoretical in its analysis of the probable connections between sex and politics, not least in terms of a given...

'Cross-Purposes', to cite its main title, is a philosophic-cum-romantic novel in which a young writer becomes amorously involved with the wife of an influential publisher and ends-up paying the price, as does a certain philosopher friend of his, whose subsequent double-dealing in connection with their...