387:(2019) is set in a dystopic near-future Britain, where rising sea-levels and climate change have led to a breakdown in world-wide social and economic order. The title refers to a concrete fortification constructed along the entire British coast, populated by conscripted Defenders responsible for preventing the Others (refugees) from reaching the British mainland (where the British population enjoy relative stability and prosperity). The story is told from the perspective of Kavanagh, a young man beginning his mandatory two-year tour of duty as a Defender on the Wall. The novel deals with themes of
283:(2000) describes one day in the life of Victor Phillips, a middle-aged accountant who has been made redundant, but has yet to tell his family. He spends the day travelling round London, with the narrative dividing itself between reporting Mr Phillips' observations about what he sees, and also exploring his recollections of things in the past, or his own taboo-like preoccupations, with sex and social obligation. The book deals with other male, middle-class concerns, including money, family and getting older.
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291:(2002) is set in Hong Kong in the 1980s. It tells the stories of three immigrants to the island—an ambitious and increasingly self-confident female English journalist who has recently arrived, an elderly English hotel-keeper who came in the 1930s; a young Chinese man who came as a child refugee from mainland China.
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