Description
It is the year 2013. Britain is in a severe recession and poverty is causing mayhem. There has been a sequence of short-lived hung parliaments and, due to terrorist bombs, repressive measures have been brought in by the power-hungry Government which fall especially hard on British Muslims. Global security is also at risk when an election in Iraq brings in a fundamentalist government and it threatens to nationalize its oil. And the friendly partnership between the US and UK is over - destroyed by mistrust. After a new election is called, Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources. This helps secure a majority for his party and Alan Petherbridge becomes Prime Minister. Gott steps in to investigate despite a scandalous personal secret that might get in the way...
Bailey's speculative, dystopian London of 2013 eerily foreshadows and accurately depicts the climate of fear and paranoia surrounding global economic downturn and its effects on society.
About the Author
Hilary Bailey is a British writer and editor, born in 1936. She is the author of a biography of Vera Brittain, she edited volumes 7-10 of the New Worlds Quarterly series and among her varied works are 19 books of fiction, including famously Frankenstein's Bride, the sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mrs Rochester, the sequel to Jane Eyre, and Fifty-First State (2008).
Book Information
ISBN 9781448209309
Author Hilary Bailey
Format Paperback
Page Count 380
Imprint Bloomsbury Reader
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 430g
Bailey's speculative, dystopian London of 2013 eerily foreshadows and accurately depicts the climate of fear and paranoia surrounding global economic downturn and its effects on society.
About the Author
Hilary Bailey is a British writer and editor, born in 1936. She is the author of a biography of Vera Brittain, she edited volumes 7-10 of the New Worlds Quarterly series and among her varied works are 19 books of fiction, including famously Frankenstein's Bride, the sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mrs Rochester, the sequel to Jane Eyre, and Fifty-First State (2008).
Book Information
ISBN 9781448209309
Author Hilary Bailey
Format Paperback
Page Count 380
Imprint Bloomsbury Reader
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 430g
