fiction
The Ghost, by Robert Harris (2008)
Tom Jennings chuckles at a recent New Labour rat leaving the sinking ship.
A Groupie’s Revenge.
The Tin Roof Blowdown, by James Lee Burke (2007). Book review – Tom Jennings
James Lee Burke’s post-Katrina hardboiled crime novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, exposes and critiques the responses to the disaster.
CSI: The Big Sleazy by Tom Jennings
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka's seminal novel, telling the tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his innocence against a charge about which he can get no information.
Text originally from Project Gutenberg. Available as a pdf file below.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Laon and Cythna
The uncensored version of The Revolt of Islam.
Presented in PDF format (620kb).
The Actor and the King - Ret Marut/B. Traven
A short story by the anarchist Ret Marut, who in later years became the well-known radical novelist B. Traven.
Assembly Line - B. Traven
This is an early Traven story, taken, in an uncredited translation, (probably by Traven himself - I have Anglicised the spelling) from The Night Visitor and other stories, Allison & Busby, 1983 - a volume long out of print. The original German version - Der Grossindustrielle - was first published by the Buchergilde Gutenburg in 1928, as part of the collection Der Busch.
News from Nowhere - William Morris
Morris's utopian dream of a communist society.
