Matthew Dunster: 5 books

Michael and Gordon have been best friends since acting college. Now, 20 years later, Michael is Mr Saturday Night TV but failing actor Gordon is struggling with enormous debts. Meanwhile Gordon’s daughter Effi e couldn’t care less about her Dad’s problems – she is far more interested in the...

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. Winston Smith rewrites history for the Ministry of Truth, but when he’s handed a note that says simply ‘I love you’ by a woman he hardly knows, he decides to risk everything in a search for the real truth. In a world where cheap...

'I mean....it – is – the – future. It’s safe. That’s it for me. Security. That’s it.’ 'Yer think yer safe – yer think people like me don’t exist – or yer wanna pretend I don’t – well I’m in your flat, mate!’ The developers have had their way – an old way...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us." Sound familiar? How much more do those in power think Europe’s...

London. 2016. A strange and unsettled time – where men and the violence of gangs rules the streets. In a dangerous world we hear a new voice – Imogen’s. Suffocated by her father’s aggression – her man kicked out of town, her life under threat, poisoned by the drugs of her step-mother...