fiction

1954. Hollywood actors, cold warriors, mobsters, drug dealers and homing pigeons. What will Yugoslavian president Tito do, now that Joe Stalin is dead? What is the hidden link between Lucky…

Seminal novel set in an ahistorical Victorian England, where Lord Byron leads the technocratic…

Famous short story where time is regulated and being late is a crime. Despite the Ticktockman, the…

Not wanting to be concerned with money or a safe life typified by a house with an aspidistra plant, a copywriter quits his job to become an…

Late 30s novel following George Harvey Bone and his similarly unemployed feckless acquaintances in and out of Earl's Court pubs, with war and…

Erroneously considered a damning of collectivism, Orwell's allegorical fantasy is a critique of the Bolshevist and Stalinist regimes set on a…

A world with constant surveillance, perpetual war and a militarised police state, George Orwell's most famous novel was a warning against…

Set in the time of tremendous religious and political upheaval caused by the Reformation in Europe, Q begins with Luther nailing his 95 theses on…

A short fictional pocketbook about the pirate Captain Mission, by Situationist Larry Law.

A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists follows…

Down and out memoirs of a line assembly worker for GM Motors over the 1980s. In amongst co-workers going postal in the local bar, drinking on the…

The only person to have made a writing career about yo-yoing in and out of employment, Bukowski accounts the conditions in 1944 having faced…