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…
Factotum - Charles Bukowski 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…
A fan's notes - Frederick Exley A struggling alcoholic teacher reminiscences about a life of mental hospitals, failed job interviews and the feeling of being out of step with…
