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BEASTS OF ENGLAND
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023—The Guardian
BEST BOOKS OF 2023—The Week
An anarchic sequel to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Beasts of England is a warped fable; a state-of-the-farmyard novel about back-stabbers, truth-twisters and corrupt charlatans.
What the reviews say…
“A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm.” — The Observer
“Exhilarating… Biles is a sophisticated thinker and elegant writer. He takes the codes of Orwell’s 1949 book and makes them into something thrilling of his own.”—The Sunday Times
“In Beasts of England, Adam Biles has updated and retooled Animal Farm for today, and in this clever, resourceful and at times painful novel, the risk pays off.” —The Guardian
“In its portrait of maximal duplicity, Beasts of England is as much of our time as Animal Farm was of its.” —Rebecca Solnit, New Statesman
“Impressive… Fun… Orwell is one of the great writers of fear, but where Animal Farm works by suggestion… Biles’s novel puts everything on show, and in doing so stops the reader several times through its sheer brutality.” —The Telegraph
“Beasts of England is a grim and clever take on Orwell for our modern times, a call to arms that offers a sliver of hope, a small window on its way to closing: ‘There are two ways this could go, and neither was fated.’”—The Irish Times
‘Beasts of England is funny, clever, timely, and sufficiently uncategorizable to deliver itself of its dark message with lightness and charm.’ — Rachel Cusk
‘An extraordinary book. Incisive, intelligent, kind, indignant – Adam Biles has more to say about the state of our politics than most non-fiction writers manage over books twice the length. Orwell would have been proud.’ — Ian Dunt
‘A cunning, bold and timely act of artistic hijacking… that, like Orwell, contains within its vision the seeds of a possible, brighter tomorrow.’ — Rob Doyle
“Highly recommended.”— David Runciman
A selection of the best interviews from the last decade. It’s a celebration of the greatest writers of our age and an insight into the lives and thoughts behind some of today’s most talked-about books.
Published by Canongate, 5 October 2023.
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Featuring interviews with: Claire-Louise Bennett, Rachel Cusk, Geoff Dyer, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Annie Ernaux, Percival Everett, Marlon James, Hari Kunzru, Meena Kandasamy, Katie Kitamura, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Olivia Laing, Madeline Miller, Carlo Rovelli, George Saunders, Leïla Slimani, Miriam Toews, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead and Jenny Zhang.
FEEDING TIME
"A dazzling and darkly comic debut...Adam Biles is a mega-watt talent." —The Guardian
“A crazy, caustic and irreverent novel, in the great English tradition . . . it feels like reading Dickens on acid.” —Leïla Slimani, Le Monde
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An unabridged, polyphonic and diverse celebration of Joyce's Modernist masterwork. Including BLOOMCAST, an accessible deep-dive into the book. Conceived, produced and presented by Adam Biles.
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