Set during the last years of the Cold War, and spanning the duration of ThatcherтАЩs Britain, The Squire Quartet follows the political, professional and private adventures of a group of linked characters. It is a vivid fictional portrait of BritainтАЩs recent history.
All four volumes тАУ Life in the West, Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day and Somewhere East of Life тАУ are collected here for the first time in one volume and for the first time in ebook form.
Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story тАШCriminal RecordтАЩ, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.