Of his first published book, An Introduction to the Thought of Galvano della Volpe (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1977):

As a fiction writer, Fraser has towering ambitions and a unique signature style. The Magnificent Wurlitzer is an extraordinary modern epic, its theme that of the 'guilty Faust' on a fantastic, grotesque journey seeking his truth, his Mephistopheles. Its hero James (aka Jay, Jayman, Hopper) treads in the traces of epics from East and West, Gilgamesh, the Ramayana, Götterdämmerung, from jazzman to shaman, sliding from music and religion to seeking order where there can be none, to politicking and leadership of the virtual and the voiceless. Rouben Kodesh comments:

His latest fictional work, The Red Tank presents, in the form of fables, founding myths and epics of the new world, now global and 'spatial'. This new world, new age, is seen with a Martian taken-abackness. With our new horizons, what happens to the little beings, our species, and their allies among the beasts – do they grow, becoming giant, innocent philosophers, or go off to rut and grunt in the forest? After everything – the ideas, solutions, enthusiasms – the struggle goes on. The projects are once more immense – taming nature, securing peace, creating order. The protagonists are fabulous, easily the equals of ancient gods and heroes. The book is in three parts (Chinese Whispers, Funny Little Fellows and The Bright Stars) of which Fraser says:

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Educational background

1949–57		St Paul's School, London: Foundation Scholar
1956		St Paul's School, London: State Scholar
1956		Major Open Scholarship in History, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
1957–60		BA Hons in History (Part 1) and English Literature (Part 2), Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
1960–61		King's College, London: Postgraduate Certificate in Education
1965–68		University of Leicester, Faculty of Social Sciences, PhD in Political Science (Dissertation: 'The Impact of the "Labour Unrest", 1910–14, on the British Labour Movement'), 1968

Teaching posts (university and higher education)

1961–66		Assistant Lecturer, Grades A & B, Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology, Cambridge
1966		Lecturer, Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology, Cambridge
1967–68		Tutorial Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Leicester, Leicester
1968–71		Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
1970–71		Acting Chairman of Department, Department of Political Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
1971–76		Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1976–84		Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Tenure, 1978
1976–77		Sabbatical year
1978–81		Courses on Italian polirics, John Cabot College, Rome (on release from University of Waterloo)
1981–84		Professore a contratto, Facoltà di Magistero, Cattedra di sociologia generale, Università di Roma-La Sapienza
1984–86		Progetti di ricerca CNR e seminario sulla 'comunità', Facoltà di Magistero, Sociologia, Università di Ferrara
1986–87		Profesore a contratto, Facoltà di Magistero, Sociologia, Università di Ferrara
1986–2001		Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Reading
1991		Profesore a contratto, Università di Roma-La Sapienza, Sociologia della conoscenza
1993		Profesore a contratto, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Ferrara, Sociologia
1995		Profesore a contratto, Università di Roma – CEPAS
1995–99		Editor di International Sociology (ISA), Roma
1996–97		Profesore a contratto, Università di Ferrara, Sociologia
1998–99		Seminari in sociologia, Università di Ferrara, Sociologia
2000–01		Profesore a contratto, Università di Ferrara, Sociologia
2002–03		Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Reading

Publications – books (academic)

		An Introduction to the Thought of Galvano della Volpe, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1977 (transl. into Italian as: Il Pensiero di Galvano della Volpe, Liguori, Napoli, 1979).
		L'Intellettuale Amministrativo nella Politica del PCI, Liguori, Napoli, 1977, 88 pp.
		Italy: Society in Crisis / Society in Transformation, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1981, 304 pp.
		PCI e Intellettuali a Bologna (con un'Introduzione di Franco Ferrarotti), Liguori, Napoli, 1982, 166 pp.
		Gianicolo/Ianiculum (Poesie e prosa), ed. Lupo, Roma, 1983, 107 pp.
		Comunità contro Società? Il Ritorno alla Comunità e la Ricerca dei Fondamenti della Socialità, La Goliardica, Roma, 1987, 104 pp.
		Il tempo dei giovani (con A. Zanotti e U. Wienand), Comune di Ferrara, 1991, 147 pp.

Publications – books (fiction and non-academic)

		Black Masks, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2009		READ NOW
		The Magnificent Wurlitzer, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2009		READ NOW
		The Red Tank, AESOP Modern, Oxford, 2010		READ NOW

Publications – articles

		'Trends in Soviet Theory', Laurentian University Review, 3(1), June 1970, 22–33.
		'Marxists and Intellectuals', Science and Society, 25(3), Autumn 1971, 257–85.
		'Intellectuals and the Canadian Experience', Communist Viewpoint, 4(4), June–Aug. 1972, 38–45.
		'Intellectuals and the Party', Communist Viewpoint, 5(3), May–June 1973, 30–35.
		'From Wilderness to Coterie', Communist Viewpoint, 5(2), March–April 1974, 31–38.
		'Enrico Berlinguer et la transition vers la transition', Etudes Internationales, 5(3), Sept. 1975, 318–333.
		'Soviet Sociology and Its Critics', Studies in Comparative Communism, Winter 1975, 370–388.
		'Rejoinder to Paul Piccone', Studies in Comparative Communism, Autumn 1975, 296–298.
		'Louis Althusser on Science, Marxism and Politics', Science and Society, 41(4), Summer 1977, 238–264.
		'Riflessioni sul "Nuovo Intellettuale di Sinistra"', La Critica Sociologica, 42, Summer 1977, 7–36.
		'The Production of Canadian Literature', in P. Cappon (ed.), In Our Own House: Social Perspectives on Canadian Literature, McClelland & Stewart, 1978, 148–173.
		'Rousseau e Marx: Un'ipotesi di lavoro', Rinascita, 8 Sept. 1978, 27–28.
		'La Tecnica e il tecnico', La Società, 20, Jan. 1979, 55–58.
		'Diritti borghesi e società socialista', La Critica Sociologica, Spring 1980, 53, 6–17.
		'Il PCI e gli Intellettuali a Bologna', La Critica Sociologica, Spring 1980, 53, 84–111.
		'Circhi senza pane', La Critica Sociologica, Spring 1981, 57, 257–259.
		'The Inner Contradictions of Marxism and Political Violence', Social Research, 48(1), Spring 1981, 21–44.
		'Il contesto della violenza', La Critica Sociologica, 61, Spring 1982, 46–49.
		'"Generali", politici e noantri', La Critica Sociologica, 61, Spring 1982, 46–49.
		'Gli attivisti del PCI', Politica ed Economia, 3, March 1983, 33–38.
		'Dopo lo storicismo, l'organicismo o il meccanicismo: ci serve una nuova sistematica?', La Critica Sociologica, 67, Autumn 1983, 56–63.
		'La sociologia italiana di fronte agli anni '80', La Critica Sociologica, 73, Spring 1985, 22–32.
		'The Gramsci Institutes and the Marx Memorial Library', Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library, 73, Spring 1985, 5–6.
		'Per un'analisi comparata di sociologia dell'editoria', in AA.VV., La produzione del libro como bene di consumo, Ianua, Roma, 1986.
		'Marxism in Italy', Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library, Spring 1986.
		'Engels and Science', Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library, Autumn 1986.
		'Legittimità e processi politici' , in Roberto Ciprianio (ed.), Legittimazione e Società, Armando, Roma, 1986, pp. 151–158 (republished in Current Sociology, 35(2), Summer 1997, pp. 119–126).
		'Potere reale e potere sindacale', La Critica Sociologica, 78, Summer 1986, pp. 118–126.
		'Commento a Claus Offe, Contradictions of the Welfare State', La Critica Sociologica, 75–76, Autumn–Winter 1986, pp. 243–246.
		'Community, the private and the individual', Sociological Review, Nov. 1987, 35(4), pp. 795–818.
		'I partiti politici ad Orune', in R. Cipriani (ed.), La lunga catena, Angeli, Milano, 1988, pp. 148–170.
		'L'Io post-minimo', La Critica Sociologica, 88, Winter 1988–89, pp. 138–154.
		'La natura umana in Tönnies', Soziologisches Jahrbuch, 4, Winter 1988–89, pp. 137–158.
		'L'astensionismo in Gran Bretagna', in F. Ferrarotti (ed.), La protesta silenziosa, Siares, Roma, 1989, pp. 303–342.
		'La politica e il postmoderno', in Culture e politica nell'Europa contemporanea, ECIC, Cenova, 1990, pp. 105–123..
		'Tönnies and Marx on the "natural community"', in L. Clausen and C. Schliiter (eds), Ausdauer, Geduld und Ruhe: Aspekte und Quellen der Tönnies-Forschung, Rolf Fechner Verlag, Hamburg, 1991, pp. 245–269.
		'Aspirations to Community', Annali dell'Università di Ferrara, 1992.
		'Multiculturalism in Britain: Fragmented Reality or Policy Option?', Affari Sociali Internazionali, 1993, 21–49.

Comments

		'The intellectuals and the powers (Edward Shils)', in Science and Society, 27(2), Summer 1973, pp. 222–226.
		'Structural analysis in contemporary social thought (C. Glucksmann)', Sociological Review, 23(1), Feb. 1975, pp. 178–187.
		'New rules of sociological method (A. Giddens)', Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Oct–Dec. 1976, pp. 645–649.
		'Ideological variations of realised socialism: scientific-technical "humanism" (Guido D. Neri)', Sociological Review, 1(24), Feb. 1976, pp. 187–196.
		'Un libro inglese sul marxismo occidentale (P. Anderson)', Critica marxista, 3, 1977, pp. 149–158.
		'The culture of professionalism (B.J. Bledstein)', Rassegna Italiana di sociologia, 4, 1978, pp. 685–692.

Translated books

		Rousseau and Marx (Galvano della Volpe), Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1978, 206 pp.
		Gramsci and the Party: The Prison Years (Paolo Spriano), Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1979, 192 pp.
		Max Weber and the Destiny of Reason (Franco Ferrarotti), M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1982, 330 pp.

Conferences

		Bologna, March 1987, 'Gramsci negli Stati Uniti', Circolo Sardegna-Instituto Gramsci.
		Merano, April 1987, 'Natura, natura umana e comunità in Tönnies', Convegno Internazionale su Tönnies.
		Kiel, Nov. 1987, 'Tönnies, Marx e la "comunità natural"'.
		Amalfi, May 1988, Convegno AIS sulla postmodernità.
		Villa Vigoni, Oct. 1987 / Vienna, 1988, Progetto trinazionale coordinato dal prof. Carlo Mongardini sulla 'politica del futuro'.
		Rome, June 1989, 'Roberto M. Unger e la politica del futuro'. Convegno IIS.
		Orune, Jan. 1989, convegno sul libro La lunga catena.

Other published work

		At Cambridge, published in Delta.
		Light Blue, Dark Blue, anthology published hy Macdonald.
		Literary Editor of Gemini for one issue.
		Yes, I Do like Brahms (reproduced in Black Masks), first published in the London Magazine, 1989.
		Parts of The River (reproduced in Black Masks), appeared in Janiculum/Gianicolo: Poems & Stories, first published by Edizioni Lupo, Rome, 1983.

Unpublished work

		The Time Till Tomorrow (novel, c. 1958).
		The Observatory (novel, 1968).
		The Other Shore (novel, 1972).

Musical activities

1997–2004: natural horn soloist – London and Cardiff venues.