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Pragtopia

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Pub Date 28 Sep 2025 | Archive Date 9 Dec 2025

Troubador | Troubador Publishing

Business, Leadership, Finance | General Fiction (Adult) | Politics & Current Affairs

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Description

Socrates, a retired schoolteacher, and Jack, a university dropout, form an unlikely friendship. With the help of a few friends, they try to recapture their economic and political ideals.

However, the younger man's past keeps resurfacing and threatens to drag him back into a dark and violent world front which he was trying to escape. The pressure on him to move back into this world steadily increases until it not only threatens him but threatens the lives of his friends....

Can they save the British economy?

Can they save their ideals?

But ultimately ...can they save themselves?

Socrates, a retired schoolteacher, and Jack, a university dropout, form an unlikely friendship. With the help of a few friends, they try to recapture their economic and political ideals.

However...

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A Note From the Publisher

D P Jennings, after gaining a degree in electrical engineering from Manchester University, was an electrical engineer in a shipyard for 25 years. During this time he started a property business which he went into full time after leaving the shipyard and continues with this to this day.

D P Jennings, after gaining a degree in electrical engineering from Manchester University, was an electrical engineer in a shipyard for 25 years. During this time he started a property business which...

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ISBN 9781836289739
PRICE £1.99 (GBP)
PAGES 384

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This is exactly what I expected- an on-the-nose modern interpretation of a Socratic seminar (with a character literally named Socrates) discussing the creation of an ideal economy between an increasing number of interlocutors with varying opinions. There is a plot, but it really does take a back seat to the dialogue. The ideas presented in this book made me think, and I'll definitely have a lot to chew on. However, the humor often fell flat for me and served to draw me out of the narrative. Maybe that's a sign that I would prefer a straight philosophical work rather than a fiction piece.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing a free eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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