From James Meek, the award-winning author of the international bestseller The People’s Act of Love, comes a rich and intricate novel about everything that matters to us now: children, celebrity, secre
“The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.”In a little over a generation the bo
In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – have been sold to remote, unaccountable private owners. In a serie
The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit by Orwell Prize winning journalistIn March 2019, the UK will leave the EU, facing an unpredictable future. Since the referendum in 2016, the nation has bee
Reality-show producer and habitual liar Ritchie Shephard can't stand his sister Bec's relentless honesty, while Bec helps a gene-therapy researcher build a family of his own, even as her ex-fiance Val
In a remote Siberian village, amid a lawless, unforgiving landscape, lives Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, willfully self-reliant widowed mother. A mystical, separatist Christian sect, a stranded regimen
Scholarship on the uses of the Old Testament in Luke-Acts has tended to focus upon the role played by the Old Testament in the development of the author's Christology. James Meek, however, draws out t
