ENGLAND'S RISE and DECLINE: And What It Means, Today (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974492459)

British author Jon Lee Junior (Jonathan Lee) has written 8 critically acclaimed, full-length books. He maintains that writing is a vocation which requires years of dedication. The result is that his books are enjoyable, understandable and easy to read - but also serious, informed and classically well-written. He believes in "urging up" - which is the opposite of the modern disease of dumbing down. Good writing should be classy but not artsy. Jon Lee Junior has lived and taught in East Asia for 15 years. Much of this time was spent in background historical research for his controversial Japanese thriller, 'The Kyoto Complex', and for his screwball comedy series, 'A Coward in . . .'. During his travels, he has had the pleasure of working alongside many North Americans (and Australasians) and so his writing is mid-Atlantic in tone, vocabulary and national idioms. It can be enjoyed by any English-speaking community. Despite his self-consciously fuddy-duddy and old-fashioned attention to detail, Jon Lee Junior is a truly international writer - and the humorously sane voice of our insane age. In these regards - as in so many others - his 'aristocratic standards' are at the same time representative of today's world and accessible to all people. His hometown is Portsmouth in the UK, a city that is rich in history and the life of great writers, (even though its own residents gleefully laugh at Portsmouth's lack of high culture). contact (specifying the query in the subject box) jonleejnr@hotmail.com