Latest book list - Donald's book canon (all my books with ISBN numbers, the whole thing)

     Donald Hedges ksc FRSA

BSc Open(Open),  BA(Hons)(Solent),

DipHE(Solent), CertHE(Solent). 

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PROFILE

 

Since qualifying from University in 1995, I have mainly done welfare rights work with a wide remit (welfare benefits plus advising clients on personal fnances and taxation) as well as working as an Appropriate Adult for Solent Mind. In terms of qualifications I have a BA Honours Accounting degree and a BSc Open degree. In the Catholic Church I am a knight/council officer of St Columba and have a degree of membership in it and I am in the Guild of Altar Servers. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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2026 AUTHORSHIP (75 TITLES). (CORRECT LIST)

 

 

01, 02 In the role of boy, published by Amazon, Kindle Publishing (2024), Autobiography and Travelogue, ISBN 13: 9798324115463 £11.99, Kindle ebooks £8.99. Please see also items 46 and 47 for consolidation.

This is my original autobiography from when I was born to the present time and is brother or sister to the Boy Returns which appear later in this bibliography.

 

03 Murder at the Manor published by Amazon Kindle Publishing (2024) ISBN 979-8324651828 £5.00.PB

Murder at the Manor deals with a local squire in Bishops Waltham, his love of fox hunting and a series of strange incidents at the hands of a group of fox hunting saboteurs.

 

04 Murder at the Vestry published by Amazon Kindle Publishing ISBN 979-8327401969 £6.00PB

Murder at the Vestry deals with the death of a local vicar in the parish of Estreham Vale, South London.

 

05,06 Depression my Personal Journey published by Amazon Kindle Publishing ISBN 9798329371741 £9.50 PB. Also Kindle EB £9.99.

This deals with my personal experiences of Depression, its causes and effects.

 

07,08 Essays by Donald Hedges Kindle £9.99 and PB £10.50 ISBN 979-8332571718

A series of essays, the first book of its type in this genre by the author dealing with various subjects from electric buses to lots of other things.

 

 

 

 

09 Harley Street Murder by Donald Hedges, published by Amazon Kindle Publishing £9.99 EB

My third novel deals with a philosophical subject (metempsychosis) and the strange case of an MP allegedly murdering his wife but no one can prove either who he is anymore or what became of him.

 

10,11 I was that boy
 Donald Hedges, published by Amazon Kindle Publishing £9.99 EB Also PB.ISBN 9798335248983 £12.50.

This is the first consolidation of my autobiography and puts together the two books of I was that Boy and the Boy returns giving details of all of my life from 1951 to 2023.

 

 

12,13, Travelogue: London and South East by Donald Hedges, published by Amazon Kindle Publishing ISBN 90798335360012 £14.00PB. Also EB

This ia a whole series of journeys throughout London and the South East exploring various rail and tube lines and also details of some journeys further afield, as in New York and Paris.

 

14,15,  3 novels by Donald Hedges, Published by Amazon Kindle Publishing  £11.99 EB and £11.99   ISBN 9798340205049.

All three novels which I have written, consolidated together in one book. Includes Murder at the Manor, Murder at the Vestry and Harley Street Murder.

 

16,17  The Author’s Art – How it’s done by Donald Hedges. Published by Amazon Kindle publishing ISBN: 9798335743433 Also Kindle EB £9.99

This is a book about how to construct and write books, which will be of substantial use to those people who like me want to write books.

 

18,19,20 The Boy Returns published by Amazon Kindle Publishing (2024) Autobiography 2 ISBN 13: 979-8325353833 £14.00 HB, £12.00 PB. £7.66 Kindle EB

This is the second part of my autobiography but is largely superseded by later consolidations.

 

21,22  The Boy Returns published by Amazon HB and PB

This is a copy of the above and is republished as a copy; none would be better off buying 18, 19 or 20 because it is exactly the same materials.

 

23,24, Shakespeare Cinematically and Visually by Donald Hedges PB 12.99 ISBN In process of being published. ISBN 9798305987713

A book of all my Shakespeare essays when I was at the Open University in 2012, doing one of the last renditions of the fabulous AA306 Shakespeare Text and Performance courses in that University as part of the finals of my BSc degree with that institution.

 

25,26 Catholicism – my conversion by Donald Hedges PB £4.85, Kindle £4.85 In process of being published. ISBN 9798307454114.

My conversion to becoming a Catholic and how I was subsequently confirmed and became an altar server and sacristan.

27,28 Dans le Role du Garcon (Autobiographie) by Donald Hedges PB £10.35 (Published in French and available in France). ISBN PB 9798311737555

My autobiography, translated into French.

 

29 J’etait Cet Garcon Autobiographie by Donald Hedges PB £10.35 (Published in French and available from Amazon.fr ISBN: 9798312045222

My consolidated autobiography translated into French.

 

30 Londres et autre endroits Récit des Voyages by Donald Hedges PB £10.56 (Published in French and available from Amazon.fr) ISBN 9798312172348

My travelogue, fully translated into French.

 

31 Le Garcon Reviernt Autobiographie 2 French edition fully translated by Donald Hedges PB £10.76 ISBN: 9798312755657 Imprint: Independently published

The second part of my autobiography, the Boy Returns, translated into the French language.

 

32Things I would rather not admit, continuation autobiography Kindle edition £9.99

33 Things I would rather not admit, continuation autobiography, PB edition £12.50 ISBN 9798278226680  Please see also items 46 and 47 for consolidation.

Things I would rather not admit is an extra autobiography, of things that were left out of the original renditions of my autobiography.

 

34 London and Other Places Revised Travelogue Kindle Edition £9.99

35 London and other places Travelogue PB edition £12.50 ISBN 9798279347841

A revised travelogue of London and Paris and New York and my findings and adventures in these places.

 

 

36 The Post Office Scandal and other Accounting Thoughts – a Primer for change

Kindle edition £9.99.

37 Same title as above. PB £12.50. ISBN: 9798241349491

Imprint: Independently published

An exploration of the Post Office Scandal and other derring do in the world of accounting.

 

38 The little man whose time has come – Biography 1958 to 1998 Donald Hedges Kindle edition £9.99

39 Same title as above The little man whose time has come Biography 1958 to 1998

Donald Hedges PB £14.00. ISBN: 9798241714879

Imprint: Independently published

The transition from being a boy to becoming a man. My life story again

 

40 The Little man whose time has come Consolidation Biography 1958-2026 Kindle £9.99

41 The little man whose time has come Consolidation Biography 1958-2026 PB. £14.00.
Your book has been assigned a free KDP ISBN:ISBN: 9798242071391

Imprint: Independently published

The full rendition of my journey from boyhood into manhood for all of the years that I have been on the earth. My life story again.

 

42 Lines of enquiry: Autoethnography Kindle KDP E Book £9.99

43 Lines of enquiry: ISBN to be released Kindle Paperback £14.00.

979-8243507776

An autoethnography of me in terms of how institutions and education have shaped my life.

 

44. Judge John Deed – a critical analysis of the television series Donald Hedges FRSA Kindle

45. Judge John Deed – a critical analysis of the television series Donald Hedges FRSA ISBN TBA Paperback £14.00

ISBN 9798245424507

A critical analysis of the popular television series featuring a profile of the author GF Newman and an analysis of some of the episodes of the series.

 

46. I was that Boy and Things I would rather not admit Consolidation Autobiography (497 pages) Kindle £9.99.

47. I was that Boy and Things I would rather not admit Consolidation Autobiography (497 pages) Amazon KDP £23.00. ISBN 9798245545523

This is a consolidation of all previous consolidations of my autobiography and is extended admirably by the new section entitled Things I would rather not admit.

 

48 Essays and Post Office Scandal Consolidation Volume 2026 Donald Hedges FRSA Kindle £9.99

49 Essays and Post Office Scandal Consolidation Volume 2026 Donald Hedges FRSA KDP Amazon £15.00 Your book has been assigned a free KDP ISBN:

ISBN: 9798245560489

Analysis of the Post Office Scandal consolidated with a book of essays.

 

50 Depression and the Little Man whose time has come Consolidation Volume 2026

Donald Hedges FRSA £9.99

51 Depression and the Little Man whose time has come Consolidation 2026

(Paperback) £18.00.

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ISBN: 9798245704258

Imprint: Independently published

This again is a consolidation work and the details of the individual books will be found as above.

 

52 Inspector Morse – an analysis of the television series Kindle £9.99 Donald Hedges FRSA.

53 Inspector Morse – an analysis of the television series PB £12.00 Donald Hedges FRSA £12.00

ISBN TBA. 979-8246259757.

Again this is a monograph of the famous detective created by Colin Dexter and played by John Thaw in the very memorable television series.

 

 

54 Famous outliers of Film and Television Kindle £9.99 Donald Hedges FRSA

55 Famous outliers of Film and Television £14.00 PB Donald Hedges FRSA

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ISBN: 9798246613009

Imprint: Independently published

Some of your favourite outliers in film and television series.

 

56 The Morality of Outliers in Film and Television Kindle £9.99 Donald Hedges FRSA

57. The Morality of Outliers in Film and Television £12.00 Donald Hedges PB FRSA.

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ISBN: 9798247484646

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The morality of some of your favourite outliers in film and television series.

 

58 Negotiating big and little structures Outliers series Kindle £9.99 Donald Hedges

59. Negotiating big and little structures Outliers series Donald Hedges PB

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ISBN: 9798249112943

Imprint: Independently published

Having worked in both big and little structures I point out some of the mistakes that have been made in them.

 

60 Employing the wrong people and other mistakes Kindle £9.99 Donald Hedges

61 Employing the wrong people and other mistakes PB Donald Hedges £15.00

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ISBN: 9798250342315

Imprint: Independently published

Whyt we don’t always employ the best people for the jobs in our industries and offices.

 

62 AI and the Future of work in 2026 Kindle £9.99 Donald Hedges FRSA

63. AI and the Future of work in 2026 PB £15.50 Donald Hedges FRSA

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ISBN: 9798252178714

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With the increase in the use of AI and Data Processing, the author looks at the future of work and some of the things that are happening in the world of work now.

 

64 Hysteria within organisations – down the years Donald Hedges FRSA Kindle £9.99

65 Hysteria within organisations – down the years KDP Amazon Donald Hedges FRSA £15.00.

ISBN: 9798253605691

Imprint: Independently published

The concept of hysteria within organisations and why organisations are too emotional and do not see things as clearly as they should.

 

 

 

 

66. Anonymisation Kindle 9.99  Donald Hedges FRSA. Outlier series (8)

67. Anonymisation PB Donald Hedges FRSA Outlier series (8)

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ISBN: 9798255340415

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How and why the individual at work becomes anonymised and is not treated as an individual but only as an object.

 

68 Scripty Behaviour Analysis and Discussion Donald Hedges©2026 FRSA £9.99 kindle

69 Scripty behaviour Analysis and Discussion Donald Hedges FRSA PB £15.00

ISBN: 9798257685743 Imprint: Independently published

This book is about people treating others as a script and not as human beings and not as people should be treated.

 

70  Second Book of Essays 2026 Donald Hedges FRSA 2026 £9.99 Kindle.

71 Second Book of Essays 2026 Donald Hedges FRSA2026 £15.00 PB

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ISBN: 9798195523596

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Yet more essays from our famous author. Same format as the original essays book.

 

72 Becoming Donald Hedges the Author unmasked Donald Hedges FRSA 2026 £9.99 Kindle

73 Becoming Donald Hedges the Author unmasked PB £15.00 Donald Hedges FRSA £15.00 PB.

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ISBN: 9798196764301

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The seminal autobiography which absolutely unmasks the author and reveals his life based on a lot of facts and incidents which the reader may find uncomfortable but which retain the whole truth.

 

74 The emotion of writing Donald Hedges FRSA Kindle EB £9.99

75 The emotion of writing Donald Hedges FRSA PB £12.50

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ISBN: 9798197630933

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About how emotional it is for the author to write books.

 

 

Anonymisation

 That dreadful feeling of anonymisation

 

I sometimes wonder whether anybody knows me at all; this is the effect of what I would call anonymisation. I am wondering whether this happens to all authors after a length of time, I have 65 books out in the world and I expect a lot of people know my name by this time but the incredible thing about it is that I still feel anonymous.

 

This must be one of those paradoxes that I have so often read about in the Bible, that in fact no man is regarded as a prophet in his own land; not that I am claiming to be a prophet, no sir by no means. But I had thought that I had a certain way with words and that I could construct a sensible argument and that I could construct a sentence and a paragraph and indeed a whole book that would make sense.

 

I think there is a paradox in doing a lot of writing in that it makes you closer to your audience but in fact it draws you away at the same time, if you follow the paradoxical reasonings of the gatekeeper in Macbeth, it pulls you in and shoves you away at same time.

 

It would seem that the more you study people and write about them and think you know them, the further you are away from them because what the writer has done (and I am sure I am guilty of a lot of this behaviour) is that in effect you have removed yourself from the ordinary cut and thrust of society, you have in effect become analytical and that is a stage above the ordinary way of life that people find themselves in; the analytical author (of which I am one) is taking a top down view of what goes on; he or she does not take part in the scrum of melee anymore, one analyses it from a perspective that has not often been done heretofore.

 

That is a strange and very philosophical experience for me, on the one hand I am glad that I am able to analyse in the way that I do; on the other hand it is very frightening to feel myself so removed from the run of the mill and so anonymised.

 

It is a feeling of “You don’t know who I am?” and I think that’s literally true of me in the modern times, I have surpassed the slings and arrows of childhood and have suddenly grown up and passed into a world which I truly do not understand, the world of the ethereal and the philosophical. What you do with writing and indeed any creative genre, such as painting, or dance, or opera, or film, is that you move levels. All of a sudden you find yourself in a space where you did not inhabit yesterday. You have moved, Dionysus like into a space whereby you can fully express yourself and you can dance and move like you never did before. This is the joy of writing and expression but on the other hand it can be a very frightening experience. What you are discovering in this is that you are inhabiting a plain of existence which you had not done heretofore and all of a sudden things make a lot of sense and then on the other hand they don’t make sense because it is a very alienating thing to happen. One feels that one does not want to let go of nurse because of fear that one has found something worse.

 

That something worse of course is the moving of levels, which is something that my teachers said that I would never be able to do; lots of employers have said it, the major problems being told things by these people is that they are often in their own silos. It is a reflection of them rather than one of me; that is an awful shame. Silo culture is one in which people are stuck and don’t want to move because they have reached their own comfort level.

 

I hadn’t reached my own comfort level that way and I don’t think it is necessarily good for people to be happy that they have reached their own comfort level. I think they do it because they are too frightened to do something else. What we have here is a lack of people that can push themselves on to new worlds whereby they can think independently and be the best that they can be.

 

There are so many pressures that make sure that this won’t happen, some of which I have written about in my latest book hysteria within organisations; in the past it was because employers required people to push paper, now it is based on the number of emails ad slides for powerpoint that you can produce. All of this is bad or unhealthy in regard to whichever generation you are judging it in, or investigating it in.

 

So however frightening it is, what we need is the kind of society which will pull people up, will allow them the propensity to think and to collaborate with others to become better people, to become better thinkers. We seem to be obsessed with people’s uniformity at the moment and I feel that this is not the right thing to be.

 

What marks us out from the animal kingdom is our ability to think and I would argue that this is important as we are not going to push the world on unless we think and plan and try to strive for higher levels. Yes, we must let go of nurse, even if it is in spite of fear for finding something worse.

 

Donald Hedges© 2026 Anonymisation.

Latest blogpost March 25th 2026.

 About Donald Hedges FRSA

Donald Hedges FRSA is an independent scholar, author, and commentator whose work spans autobiography, organisational analysis, cultural criticism, and travel writing. With sixty‑five published titles across Kindle and paperback, he has built one of the most distinctive and wide‑ranging bodies of work in contemporary independent publishing.

Drawing on five decades of lived experience in local government, welfare rights, taxation, teacher training, and parish life, Donald writes with a clarity and proportion rarely found in modern commentary. His books document the long generational shift from cognitive labour to ornamental work, offering a first‑hand account of how institutions drift, how management styles collapse into hysteria, and how the meaning of work has been hollowed out by automation.

His autobiographical series — including In the Role of Boy, The Boy Returns, The Little Man Whose Time Has Come, and Things I Would Rather Not Admit — forms a unique autoethnographic record of British life from the 1950s to the present. His analytical works, such as AI and the Future of Work, Employing the Wrong People, Negotiating Big and Little Structures, and his latest title Hysteria Within Organisations – Down the Years, explore the organisational behaviours and cultural shifts that have shaped modern working life.

Donald is also a prolific cultural critic, with detailed studies of Inspector Morse, Judge John Deed, and the morality of outliers in film and television. His travelogues, published in both English and French, reflect his long-standing interest in place, memory, and the quiet details of everyday life.

A Knight of St Columba, a member of the Guild of Altar Servers, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Donald brings to his writing the same sense of stewardship, proportion, and calm authority that has shaped his professional and civic life. His work stands as a written legacy of a world that is rapidly disappearing — a world of real cognitive labour, real responsibility, and real human judgement.

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List of 61 books latest list Donald Hedges FRSA.

 

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📚 The Published Works of Donald Hedges (61 Titles)

A complete reading list, organised by theme

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1. Autobiography & Life Writing

These books form the backbone of your canon — a multi‑volume life narrative written with clarity, honesty, and continuity.

• In the Role of Boy (Vols. 1–2)
• Dans le Rôle du Garçon (French edition)
• I Was That Boy
• The Boy Returns (HB, PB, Kindle)
• Things I Would Rather Not Admit (PB & Kindle)
• The Little Man Whose Time Has Come (Biography 1958–1998)
• The Little Man Whose Time Has Come (Consolidation 1958–2026)
• Depression – My Personal Journey
• Depression and the Little Man Whose Time Has Come (Consolidation)
• Lines of Enquiry: Autoethnography
• I Was That Boy and Things I Would Rather Not Admit (Consolidation, 497 pages)

French-language autobiographies:

• Dans le Rôle du Garçon (Autobiographie)
• J’étais Cet Garçon
• Le Garçon Revient (Autobiographie 2)

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2. Organisational Analysis, Institutions & Public Standards

This is your most original intellectual contribution — a sustained critique of how British institutions fail.

• Employing the Wrong People and Other Mistakes (PB & Kindle)
• The Post Office Scandal and Other Accounting Thoughts (PB & Kindle)
• Essays and Post Office Scandal Consolidation
• Negotiating Big and Little Structures (Outliers Series)
• Essays by Donald Hedges (Vols. 1–2)

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3. Outlier Theory

A distinctive strand in your work, exploring the moral and structural role of outliers.

• Famous Outliers of Film and Television (PB & Kindle)
• The Morality of Outliers in Film and Television (PB & Kindle)
• Negotiating Big and Little Structures (also listed above)

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4. Literary, Television & Cultural Criticism

Your analytical eye applied to major British cultural texts.

• Shakespeare Cinematically and Visually
• Judge John Deed – A Critical Analysis (PB & Kindle)
• Inspector Morse – An Analysis (PB & Kindle)
• Harley Street Murder
• Murder at the Manor
• Murder at the Vestry

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5. Catholicism, Faith & Spiritual Reflection

Books exploring your conversion, parish life, and spiritual development.

• Catholicism – My Conversion
• Reflections embedded throughout autobiographical volumes

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6. Travel Writing

Your travelogues combine observation, memory, and cultural detail.

• Travelogue: London and South East
• London and Other Places (multiple editions)
• Londres et Autres Endroits (French edition)

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7. Consolidation Volumes

Large, curated editions that bring multiple strands of your work together.

• The Little Man Whose Time Has Come – Consolidation
• Depression and the Little Man – Consolidation
• Essays and Post Office Scandal – Consolidation
• I Was That Boy & Things I Would Rather Not Admit – Consolidation

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8. Additional Fiction

Standalone novels and narrative works.

• Three novels published 2024 (PB & Kindle)

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9. Complete Bibliographic List (Titles 1–61)

For readers who want the full catalogue exactly as published, you can include the raw list from your CV as an appendix beneath the curated categories above.

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