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Britain (renamed as Airstrip One) has become part of a totalitarian superstate called Oceania after a nuclear war. Its citizens are divided between workers (‘proles’) and members of the Party. All are subjected to surveillance, control, and relentless manipulation through political propaganda. Another interesting part of the book is that you learn how to chain together multiple vulnerabilities to maximize the impact (and reward) of your findings. This was by far my favorite part. Set inside a world transformed by nanotechnology, the novel’s main theme is the role of technology and personal relationships in child development. The book also explores a cultural conflict between East and West.

Social engineering is the perfect solution: all the fun of playing the criminal without the consequences. And the tattoos make sense now; the angel’s feather is bigger, but the devil one is still very much there.I devoured this book in no time. I had so much fun reading it that I blazed through it within a week, which is very unusual for me. Sitting in the atrium, she tells me that shared buildings come with their problems. “You’re only as secure as the company that is least secure; public space provides a real challenge.” Constructed on at least three levels of reality and told through an artificially intelligent stream of consciousness, the physical embodiment of data foreshadows the prevalent and powerful role that data will play in our very modern, brave new world. This is a rip-roaring read, full of derring-do and sometimes comic, often foolhardy bravery. [Jenny] sounds an absolute hoot, and her book is never anything less' - Daily Mail

An alternative history novel set around 15 years after the Axis powers win World War II. The US is conquered and divided between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, who have become competing superpowers. Hapless everyman Arthur Dent is saved from the destruction of earth by a race of bureaucratic aliens by his friend, who turns out to be a stranded researcher of the eponymous guidebook.Right, photos finished and it’s into the waiting car, a Tesla, for the short journey to central London to do the interview. Radcliffe’s husband doesn’t like Teslas, she says. And that’s the only thing she’ll tell me about her spouse, or her family. There are children, but she won’t say how many, let alone names, ages, anything like that. “There’s no reason to know about the family.” Fair enough, it’s not about them. But it is about her. She tells me she will be 50 this year, lives in the north-west … and that’s kind of it. “The details don’t need to be out there.” But she is very happy to talk about her work, which is really interesting, and I think you get a good sense of her through it.