BEASTS of ENGLAND
BEASTS of ENGLAND
‘A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm.’ —The Observer
‘[Adam Biles] takes the code of Orwell’s 1949 book and makes them into something thrilling of his own.’ —The Sunday Times
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‘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
ADAM BILES’ 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.
‘Beasts of England is just fantastic – really funny, clever, timely, and sufficiently uncategorizable to deliver itself of its dark message with lightness and charm.’ —Rachel Cusk
‘Adam Biles has written a sly, topical updating of Orwell for the twenty-first century.’ —Hari Kunzru
‘In Beasts of England, Adam Biles hooks readers into a world that should be impossible – but becomes even more real than our own. An ambitious, brilliant, compelling novel.’ —Jenni Fagan
‘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
‘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
‘Beasts of England is written with so much compassion and elegance that you almost forget that it reflects today’s maddening reality. In this brilliant novel you will surely recognize Britain, Animal Farm and the political and moral insanity that the world is going through. But Adam Biles also wants you to recognize yourself in this book, so that together we can change the devastating course of history.’ —Ece Temelkuran