John Stewart – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

A Promise Kept: The Life and Work of Tom Chapman

Tio — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:51:07 +0000

A popular and respected trades unionist, Tom Chapman was elected a divisional organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1958, beating his communist opponent by one vote. This pitched him into the bitter struggle between the moderates and the hard-left who, in many cases, were financed and directed from Moscow. Such conflict could be treated as an ugly memory best forgotten, but as the hard…

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Friend of Castlereagh

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:23:14 +0000

Chosen for Autumn 2013 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction 1798 in Ireland has been described variously as the year of the French, the year of Liberty, or the year of rebellion. The summer was sunny, unusually so, but bloody when the United Irishmen, fired by France’s revolution and its gospel of equality, were crushed by a fearful, harsh and often inept ruling power.

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Standing for Justice

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

“I suppose that for a very long time men will be emotional and sentimental. They will shed sad tears when they see men moving down the centre of the stream. They will devise well-meaning schemes to pull those fellows out of the stream, but they never think of going up the stream to see who threw them in.” HANSARD, 6th May 1931 “Poverty is not a normal state of society. It is a disease produced…

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Visitors

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Chosen for July 2009 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction More an allegory than a novel, Visitors describes the impact of beings from a distant planet on the political, economic and spiritual life of Britain and the world A year into office and the Prime Minister’s only bonus was frustration. The swelling demands of welfare and security were like juggernauts, demolishing his reforms and…

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The President

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

The President goes missing. Every corner of the White House has been searched and double-checked, without success. The Vice President is in Europe, so the decision of whether to go public or not falls upon the Chief of Staff. Just then the phone rings: a journalist has spotted the President sitting on a park bench near the Lincoln Memorial, his only disguise a baseball cap pulled well down over…

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Prime Minister

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:53 +0000

The country is in crisis. Unrest and inner city tensions feed on unemployment. And as the Government struggles to contain the soaring debt, no one listens. Most are tired of ‘PR-savvy’ words, tired of the ‘blame-game’ that poses as debate. Divisions in the Cabinet force the premier’s resignation. Because circumstances are too dire to afford the luxury of an election, the Queen calls a meeting of…

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