Dave Hallsworth
February 2004
The Island Walkers - (Man Booker Prize 2004, Longlist)
I generally hate novels about the working class: the writers either have a very low opinion of our intelligence, or they worship us as improbable saints.
• Fiction
January 2004
The Abolition of Liberty
Had your house broken into? Been hustled by some cheeky teenagers? Been harassed by a new law that has made your job twice as hard? Tried to get the police or the courts to come to your rescue and fallen on your face?
February 2003
The Light of Day - (Man Booker Prize 2003)
Way back in the olden days when most of the working class visited the cinema at least once a week (long before the continual entertainment of television), buckets of tears were shed over a particular type of film.
• Fiction
