Blue Wolf Reviews

Tag: conspiracy

  • The Clockwork Conspiracy

    The Clockwork Conspiracy

    As a mystery set in the heart of London, the story and the language will challenge readers to follow Isaac Turner as he searches for his father. A horologist, Isaac’s father, Diggory, is the one who maintains the clock in the Tower of Big Ben. The boy loves to visit the Tower with his father and assists in setting the clock’s mechanisms along with exploring the Big Ben Bell.

    One night, Isaac is with his father when they hear a note from a bell which sounds incorrect. His father climbs the staircase to explore the problem leaving the boy to potter about. After a time, Isaac realises his father has been gone for a while. Then the real adventure begins! Diggory is nowhere to be found.

    Solomon is Isaac’s Godfather and a Speaker in the House of Parliament. His residence is nearby and Isaac races to alert him of his father’s disappearance. The boy’s mother died many years before and so he is alone.

    Solomon takes him in and here Isaac meets Hattie, Solomon’s daughter. Together they proceed to uncover a terrible plot, with ruthless people who will stop at nothing to spread evil.

    The Clockwork Conspiracy is a fast moving and complex story with surprises and mysteries to be uncovered. Each chapter is headed with a clock face showing a different time; a good idea to show the pressure of time to locate Isaac’s father.

  • CONSPIRACY

    CONSPIRACY

    Authors Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge assert in their insightful book ‘Conspiracy’ that Conspiracy theories are all around us and none of us are immune from believing in them.  Between YouTube, Covid and Donald Trump, the world’s media seem to have agreed that we have entered ‘a golden age of conspiracy theories.’ The authors’ challenge to the reader is to question that assumption because ‘conspiracism’ ebbs and flows.

    In this well researched book Phillips and Elledge explore with humour the nature and the very, very long history of conspiracy theories; they were present in the politics of Ancient Athens and Rome.  The authors emphasize that as a result of escalation, conspiracy theories’ beginnings are generally far removed from the fantastical places where they end up; they grow in the gaps of more conventional explanations. However, it is pointed out that not all conspiracy theories are false; the sexual abuse of minors by Jimmy Saville is a good example.

    This engaging book covers many conspiracy theories, many of which will strike the readers as being utterly bizarre; those surrounding the moon landing and the HIV pandemic are excellent examples.

    Readers will discover conspiracy theories which didn’t make the headlines as well as those which have been fully discussed in the media, be it the death of Kennedy, the disappearance of Harold Holt or 9/11, there is a conspiracy theory for everyone.