Chuka Umunna
: Ed's Google Speech and What It Means for Responsible Capitalism
Jamie Bartlett
: The Woolwich Attacks Are Not New
Martin Newman
: People of Woolwich Will Defy the Far-Right and Come Together Over Killing of a Soldier Son
B.J. Epstein
: Down With the Matriarchy? What Matriarchy?
Dr Peter Bruggen
: Sir David Nicholson Resigns but if Many Bad Apples Remain, The NHS Might Be Rotten to the Core
The riots that raged through the UK earlier this year and the more recent anti-capitalism demonstration at St. Paul's Cathedral have revealed the prescience of Gavin James Bower's second novel, Made in Britain, injecting the book's marketing campaign with a degree of focus it might otherwise have lacked. But this...
Posted 10 August 2011 | 22:18:37 (EST)
Which author would be best placed to respond to this week's riots? My money would be on perhaps the greatest British post-war novelist of them all, and one who is unfortunately no longer with us: J.G. Ballard. For Ballard's novels, from 1975's High Rise to 2006's Kingdom Come have famously...
Posted 2 November 2011 | 07:57:07 (EST)