THE ADAM: Feeding Time and Beasts of England
THE ADAM: Feeding Time and Beasts of England
Wrapped paperback editions of Adam Biles’s two acclaimed novels, FEEDING TIME and BEASTS OF ENGLAND.
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‘A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm.’ —The Observer on Beasts of England
‘Wonderfully lively, beautifully offbeat… Feeding Time also achieves the rare but fabled mark of the really funny book by making me laugh loudly enough on public transport to draw annoyed looks from the other passengers.’ —Sunday Express on Feeding Time
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BEASTS OF ENGLAND
ADAM BILES’S ANARCHIC SEQUEL to Animal Farm is a warped fable; a state-of-the-farmyard novel about back-stabbers, truth-twisters and corrupt charlatans.
Manor Farm has reinvented itself as the South of England’s premium petting zoo. Now, instead of a working farm, humans and beasts alike are invited (for a small fee) to come and stroke, fondle, and take rides on the farm’s inhabitants.
But life is not a bed of roses for the animals, in spite of what their leaders may want them to believe. Elections are rigged, the community is beset by factions, and sacred mottos are being constantly updated. The Farm is descending into chaos. What’s more, a mysterious ‘illness’ has started ripping through the animals, killing them one by one…
In Beasts of England, Adam Biles honours, updates and subverts George Orwell’s classic, all the while channelling the chaotic, fragmentary nature of populist politics in the Internet age into a savage farmyard satire.
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FEEDING TIME
CHOSEN BY The Observer as a Fiction Pick for 2016, Feeding Time is a debut like no other: a blast of rage against the dying of the light.
Dot is losing the will to live.
Tristan is sick of emptying bedpans.
Cornish spends entire days barricaded in his office.
And Ruggles… well. Ruggles is damn well going to escape those Nazi villains and get back to active duty.
The mix is all the more combustible since Dot, Tristan, Cornish and Ruggles are all under the same roof - that of a rapidly declining old people’s home called Green Oaks. There’s going to be an explosion. It’s going to be messy. And nobody knows who will pick up the pieces.