Set in England in 2048, this political satire tells the story of how Adolphus Hibbert's Berlusconi Bonus, a licence to a life of uninhibited decadence, leads him into a sequence of sexual enconters and a sinister geometry of loyalties and betrayals. This new edition has an introduction by Ilan Pappe and an aferword by Alessandro Barbero.
This collection of radical, now humorous now dark and pessimistic short stories was conceived as a whole, and some characters populate more than one story. Stylistically bold and varied, the books challenges the conformism that dominates so much witing in this consumerist age.
Set in Glasgow and a remote "hippy" community on the west coast of Scotland, this is a story of love, rivalries, ecological politics, murder, suicide, high values and low commedy. The hapless and slightly pompous protagonist, Jonathan Armour does not always understand the story he is telling, but he tells it beautifully.
A fantastic evocation of life and learning in a dream sequence: Jerome, who has to sit an exam and suffers from toothache, enters a nighmarish library in which everything conspires to frustrate his desperate attempts to revise.