Ian Hutson: 4 books

NGLND XPX (or “England Expects”) is a wonky-wheeled pudding-trolley of sweetmeats and savoury treats for your brain-gland. We recommend a spoonful of everything. It’s all dreadfully civilised fun, and not at all serious. The science is improbable, the history inaccurate, the plots farcical and...

Relax, ease your gussets and indulge in a picnic for your brain-gland. Rocket-ships invaded by aliens Secret government satellites plummeting Insane Cold War time-travel Victorian flying-saucers Elderly ladies and moon landings Awfully embarrassing royal “first contact” Edwardian evolution...

It’s not easy being a vegetarian ray of positivity and social sunshine after the apocalypse. For one thing, meat’s easier to come by than broccoli. Seven awfully English tales of life just that one step too far into your future. I went there so that you wouldn’t have to. Once upon...

Ten slightly mouldy slices of England’s brilliant future failures, each successfully consigned to the pre-apologetic, more successful past. Wonderfully tragic beginnings meet gruesomely happy endings, miserable lives wallow in cheerful second chances. Old-fashioned blokes, being blokes, doing awfully...