John Sutherland: 47 books

The first comprehensive 'biography' of one of the first celebrity animals who gave us one of our favourite words.   Jumbo, Victorian England's favourite elephant, was born in 1861 in French Sudan, imported to a Parisian zoo and later sold on to London, where †“ for seventeen years...

Intergenerational conflict is a perennial feature of society and capitalism. One side has the youth, the other side has the lion’s share of the wealth, and the good things wealth can bring. In the last few years that friction has reached to dangerous heights. Call it war. And, like all war,...

A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing...

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. Illustrated by examples of the lurid incidents that catapult so many books...

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility...

Red the dog in the woods is book number two of the red the dog series. The series follows the story of red the dog and his best friend James a little boy. In this adventure red the dog gets lost in the woods around the home of his best friend and owner James. Red and James have lots of fun playing the woods. They do get separated and when all seems lost James finds red the dog.

A dog in the city is a children’s story about a little boy named James and his best friend a dog named Red. In the story James and Red the dog are playing in the yard. Read the dog gets separated from his best friend James and Red the dog as an adventure in the big city. He spends a long day in...

This is a pamphlet that I have written about how to cook a delicious and easy five bean chili in a crockpot. This is a recipe that I have been working on for many years. It took me many years to perfect this recipe for a delicious chili. I did try cooking it on the stove top slowly in a stock pot,...

The Hubble Telescope has enabled us to see what we could only see dimly before and sometimes to see what we had never seen before.  After reading "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil deGrasse Tyson, I was inspired to think about the time before time; i.e. the time before "The...

When Don Q. Manchego, a middle-aged janitor in Ohio, takes the hero identity of Don Q. Public, his circle of comic book geek friends (including Felonious Monk, Bad Feng Shui, and the ever-wise Herm-Aphrodite) are concerned about public embarrassment and the potential of physical harm coming to their...

What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...