City of quartz: excavating the future in Los Angeles - Mike Davis Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not…
The peasants war in Germany 1525-1526 - Ernest Belfort Bax Belfort Bax's 1899 history of the peasants war in Germany: the largest popular uprising in Europe…
The battle for Spain: The Spanish civil war 1936-1939 - Anthony Beevor Anthony Beevor's definitive history of the Spanish civil war. While it focuses on the military…
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…
The road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell Orwell's examinations of the conditions for the working class in the north of England prior to World War Two and how he became a socialist.
Going postal: rage, murder and rebellion in America - Mark Ames Mark Ames examines the spate of US workplace killings and the phenomenon of going postal, suggesting…
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…
Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell Tramping memoirs from Orwell, where he worked in Paris as a dishwasher and then travelled around London, going from one bedsit to another.
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…