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Small Island introduced me to the world of the Windrush generation, the Caribbean immigrants into Britain in the 1940s and subsequently. It detailed, in a sympathetic but unflinching way, the prejudices and difficulties faced by Black immigrants. Some of the characters were memorable, and the writing was original and emotional. The book was fully deserving of all the awards it received on publication.
Hortense shared Gilbert's dream of leaving Jamaica and coming to England to start a better life. But when she at last joins her husband, she is shocked by London's shabbiness and horrified at the way the English live. Even Gilbert is not the man she thought he was. Queenie's neighbours do not approve of her choice of tenants, and neither would her husband, were he there. Through the stories of these people, Small Island explores a point in England's past when the country began to change.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This is a dystopian novel from New Zealand's leading novelist of recent years. Set in a version of Britain that presupposes that World War 2 ended in a treaty rather than victory by the Allies, with the government being repressive and having borrowed some genetic engineering techniques from Nazi Germany, the story (set in 1979) focusses on the lives of three boys aged about 12 (identical triplets) who are kept in a home under close medical and behavioural scrutiny. The pace picks up and by halfway through the book I was desperate to know what the boys' fate would be. The descriptions of English society in 1978 (Jim'll Fix It and Antiques Roadshow on TV, a female prime minister) are at times chilling, hilarious and subversive.
