Hard times - Charles Dickens Novel set in the fictitious Victorian industrial Coketown criticising English society and aimed at highlighting the social and economic issues of…
Letters of insurgents - Fredy Perlman 1976 novel by Fredy Perlman, written as fictional letters between two Eastern European workers, Yarostan Vochek and Sophie Nachalo, who are…
Parables of big brother - Robert Kurz Robert Kurz discusses the “implicit” “subtexts” of the great dystopian literature of the 20th century and reveals the “internalized constraints”…
Standing fast: a novel - Harvey Swados Harvey Swados' fictional story of a group of socialists and their lives from the dawn of USA's involvement in World War II to the Kennedy…
Review: The deconstruction of professor Thrub - DD Johnston Steven Johns reviews the ambitious second novel of DD Johnston which follows a young woman on a…
The Castle - Franz Kafka Kafka's last novel, The Castle is set in a remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of…
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence.
How late it was, how late - James Kelman "Literary vandalism" and "frankly, crap" was the high praise for Kelman's only Booker Prize winning novel, about Sammy, a middle aged man coming…
The dome sketch - omen A three part comedy sketch very loosely inspired by the TV show Under the Dome.
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Story set in Mumbai between 1975 and 1984 during a period of increased government power and crackdowns on civil liberties called 'The Emergency',…
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler Darkness at Noon dramatises the Moscow show trials and the elimination of the Bolshevik old guard by "No.1" In the Fatherland of Revolution. Told…
