Rex W Last has written several books on modern German literature, including Erich Kästner, Erich Maria Remarque, Hans Arp, and Dadaist literature, and has translated non-fiction works including Willy Brandt's wartime memoirs, a study of Max Ernst, a biography of Bertha von Suttner, the famous anti-war campaigner and authoress of Lay Down Your Arms, and an account of the life and time in office of West German President Gustav Heinemann. He was co-editor and programmer of the massive two-volume Arthurian Bibliography, and he has edited many more books, series of books, and academic journals.

He has also written books on computing topics, including MS-DOS and artificial intelligence. He was editor of Amstrad PCW Magazine for many years (later rebranded as PCW User) and has written hundreds of articles for this and other computing magazines. As a pioneer of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), he has designed a number of programming packages for the education market. In the 1960s, he became editorial director of Oswald Wolff Publishers Ltd, and was MD of two independent local history and academic publishing companies, the Hutton Press and Lochee Publications.

Now retired as a Professor Emeritus of German Literature at the University of Dundee, but still writing and programming, he has embraced the new technology of publishing by turning to eBooks for the Kindle. Original titles are being produced, as well as guides from the Making Sense of series, which first appeared under the Hutton Press imprint. These have now been rewritten and republished for the Kindle.

Campaigning books on the informal dementia carer

Sadly, his wife contracted Parkinsons which then developed into dementia. She died on July 29, 2023. During more than a decade of acting as her sole carer, he came to recognise the serious injustices being committed against himself and his fellow carers by the medical establishment and the political class. As a result, he wrote three books putting forward his case and encouraging other carers to come forward and publicise the injustices.

The first two books were published under the pseudonym Bill King, to protect family identities at the time of writing. The latest book is written under his own name, and is available free from this website in digital form. Go to the home page and click on the thumbnail to find out how to obtain a copy.

♦ New novels on Germans against Hitler

Rex W Last has written four novels on the general theme of German citizens and others standing up to the might of the Nazi regime. His interest in matters German springs from the fact that he had German relatives who had lived through the Nazi period. For more information on his family background, please click here. For details of the individual titles and publication dates, please click on the thumbnail images of the covers on the home page.

A fifth novel is currently being written.