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Sunday, 2 January 2011

The Best Novels Read in 2010

1: Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton (1942)

2: The City & The City by China Mieville (2009)

3: Epiphany Of The Long Sun: The Second Half Of The Book Of The Long Sun by Gene Wolf (1994)
Posted by George Matthews at 03:40
Labels: End of Year Lists, Fiction

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I'm a working-class philosophy of the London suburbs and an armchair rebel-an introvert and a full time dreamer. Imaginative fiction, writing, cinema, music, dreams and class struggle are my reasons for living.
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  • Ian Bone
    OXFORD UNION NOVEMBER 5thOH MY ACHING SIDES – POSH FUCKER LORD ADONIS – OXFORD AND a succession of non-jobs in the cabinet has written a biography of ERNIE BEVIN – working on the Bristol docks at 11 UNION SLUGGER AND HARD NUT. Interviewed by Adam Boulton this morning Adonis bemoaned the lack of similar working class ‘types’ in the Labour Party now, ‘why do you think that is’ pushed Boulton – Adonis looking genuinely perplexed said it might be cos the upper echelons of the party were as dominated by Oxford as the Tories. Yes cried BOULTON jabbing finger – ‘thats you, that’s you an oxford man taking the place of a working class man’ Adonis still not getting it..’ Yes but we are just a few’ I was thinking about a long break from politics and concentrating on my Parkinsons which is becoming increasingly dominant…………………….But when I read crap like this from a toff I know I aint giving up politics just yet. So I have accepted the invitation from THE OXFORD UNION to speak there on November 5th and I invite as many of you as possible to join me.. I don’t mind at all if the only words I am remembered for are these. THE GREATEST THING ANYBODY COULD DO FOR EQUALITY IN THE UK WOULD BE TO BURN DOWN ETON AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY see yas there mutherfuckas -
    4 years ago
  • the void
    Climate Chaos Is Class War And No-one Should Be Telling Us How To Fight It - The planet is fucked, and it will be the poor who pay the price. It is happening now in some parts of the world where climate change has already begun to ...
    5 years ago
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    Vote No Heathrow - Just had this via Roger Hallam of Vote No Heathrow, please spread the word. Things are rapidly taking off for the campaign now the hunger strikers are ente...
    7 years ago
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    Identity, love and death - *I*. Identity, in the modern sense, is necrological. It is an obituary notice. It overwrites us, in lapidary fashion, with the deposit of history. Here li...
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  • From the Greek Streets
    Athens 06/12/14 Strong Demo for Alexis & Nikos. Heavy clashes Exarcheia - Athens 06/12/14 Strong Demo for Alexis & Nikos. Heavy clashes Exarcheia from Ross Domoney on Vimeo.
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  • Infantile Disorder
    Statement from London Black Revolutionaries on Ferguson Row with SWP - The following is a repost of a statement by London Black Revolutionaries, originally posted on the Facebook event page of their 'Flood the Embassy' Ferguso...
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  • INCUBUS: Incendiary rants of an apostate anarchist
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