Showing posts with label -Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label -Fiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 February 2020

31. The Wall - John Lanchester

I heard the first and the last episode of (I think) Radio 4's Bed at Bedtime reading of this book.

It is a dystopian view of Britain post perhaps sea-level rising or Brexit-type event.

I notice that what used to be Sci-Fi sections of many bookshops are now "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian".

11 of the best dystopian novels listed here as:
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1968)
Children of Men by P.D. James (1992)
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (1999)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
The Wall by John Lanchester (2019)
Vox by Christina Dalcher (2018)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)

So that's 6 out of the 11 that I have read, and I could reread any of those.











Tuesday, 13 March 2018

6. Sal - Mick Kitson

I heard about this book on Radio 4's Front Row programme and was immediately intrigued as the story was about a pair of girls aged 13 and 10 who are on the run having killed their abusive 'stepfather'.  The wonderful characters made it quite compelling.