Foxed Books

This is an updated edition, but the diagnosis is much the same and the solution(s) just as hard to achieve as ever. The former editor of the TLS and political advisor, examines the separation between the ‘Uppers’ and ‘Downers’ in the UK today. These are his categories but are inspired by the Elois and Morlochs of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine. Without intervention, the system is self-perpetuating and birth will continue to dictate a child’s prospects, health and education unless something is done. Not as stuffy as I’m making it sound!

Penguin are publishing one hundred classics this year in a beautiful new uniform edition. Four novels by H. G. Wells will be reissued, including this one which is already out. In the early twentieth century, observers witness plumes of gas erupt from the surface of Mars. Little do they suspect that an invasion has begun and that the battle will begin on the common ground near Woking!