![]() The surge in fascination with dystopian fiction – George Orwell’s 1984 topping the bestseller list following the most recent US election is certainly indicative of the trend – plays on popular concerns regarding relationships between groups and a growing global illiberalism. ![]() With the world on its current troubling political trajectory, interest in literature that takes on the themes of totalitarianism and social disharmony is on the increase. I suppose now, looking back, this milkman knew all of that as well.” This would be a nineteeth-century book because I did not like twentieth-century books because I did not like the twentieth century. Every weekday, rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, stand-off or riots, I preferred to walk home reading my latest book. Also he made the pronouncement that I never caught this bus home. ![]() ![]() “He knew my work – where it was, what I did there, the hours, the days and the twenty-past-eight bus I caught every morning when it wasn’t being hijacked to get me into town to it. ![]()
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