Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction.

Excerpt from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War
"I suppose I am old-fashioned" - there was a murmur of polite dissent from all the ladies present, except the one addressed - "Oh, I take it as a compliment nowadays, I assure you; but when I was a girl a young lady would have no more thought of flying than of" - she paused almost on a note of pained surprise at finding the familiar comparison of a lifetime cut off - "well, of standing on her head."
"No," replied the young lady in point, with the unfeeling candour that marked the youthful spirit of the age, "because it...

Excerpt from Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Homo faber. Man is born to make. His business is to construct: to plan: to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing.
That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end (and in which it is far easier to neglect it than in any other) is the art of writing. Yet this much is certain, that unconstructed writing is at once worthless and ephemeral: and nearly the whole of our modern English writing is unconstructed.
The matter of survival is perhaps not the most important, though it is a test of a kind, and it...

THE COIN OF DIONYSIUS THE KNIGHT'S CROSS SIGNAL PROBLEM THE TRAGEDY AT BROOKBEND COTTAGE THE LAST EXPLOIT OF HARRY THE ACTOR

Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction.

In Victorian London, Max Carrados investigates a series of perplexing crimes and mysteries. The unusual thing about that is that Max Carrados is blind... Wealthy, cultured and articulate, Carrados lives a full life, with many of his associates taking time to realise that he is blind. Assisted by the faithful manservant Parkinson, his secretary Mr Greatorex and the private investigator, Carlyle, Carrados investigates making use of his remaining senses. The adventures of Max Carrados have been adapted for radio and TV on a number of occasions.

The Secret of the League is a 1907 dystopian novel by Ernest Bramah, which describes the overthrow of a democratically-elected British Labour Party Government through a carefully prepared plot by members of the upper classes, and depicts such an overthrow as being a positive and desirable outcome. George Orwell credited the book with having given a considerably accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, and also with reflecting "the mentality of the middle classes" and the brutal measures which members of these classes might condone or actively support, should they feel threatened with a...

Civil war is brewing in this Edwardian speculative political thriller, between the Conservative resistance and a Labour government inflicting a socialist nightmare on British society. Ernest Bramah's What Might Have Been (1907), better known as The Secret of the League, is now republished with 7000 words restored and a critical introduction.