London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end
of an era. It concerns a nation divided against itself, a
government trembling on the verge of collapse, a city fearful of
what is to come, and a people bitterly suspicious of one another.
In other words, it is also a novel about now. Vicky Tress is a
young policewoman on the rise who becomes involved in a corruption
imbroglio with CID. Hannah Strode is an ambitious young reporter
with a speciality for skewering the rich and powerful. Callum
Conlan is a struggling Irish academic and writer who falls in with
the wrong people. While Freddie Selves is a hugely successful
theatre impresario stuck deep in a personal and political mire of
his own making. These four characters, strangers at the start,
happen to meet and affect the course of each other's lives
profoundly. As the clock ticks down towards a general election old
alliances totter and the new broom of capitalist enterprise
threatens to sweep all before it. It is funny and dark, violent but
also moving.
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