No beast so fierce - Edward Bunker A lifelong thief released after an 8 year stretch in prison struggles with the unyielding parole officer waiting to return him, finding a job and…
54 - Wu Ming 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…
The difference engine - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Seminal novel set in an ahistorical Victorian England, where Lord Byron leads the technocratic…
"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman - Harlan Ellison Famous short story where time is regulated and being late is a crime. Despite the Ticktockman, the…
Keep the aspidistra flying - George Orwell 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…
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Late 30s novel following George Harvey Bone and his similarly unemployed feckless acquaintances in and out of Earl's Court pubs, with war and…
Animal Farm, a fairy story - George Orwell Erroneously considered a damning of collectivism, Orwell's allegorical fantasy is a critique of the Bolshevist and Stalinist regimes set on a…
1984 - George Orwell A world with constant surveillance, perpetual war and a militarised police state, George Orwell's most famous novel was a warning against…
Q - Luther Blissett 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…
Pyrate Captain Mission - Larry Law A short fictional pocketbook about the pirate Captain Mission, by Situationist Larry Law.
The ragged trousered philanthropists - Robert Tressell A Marxist critique of society dressed up as a novel, Ragged Trousered Philanthrophists follows…
Rivethead - Ben Hamper 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…
