On the morning of 24 June 2016, as Britain was waking up to the mind-bending news that the country had voted to leave the European Union, my literary agent began sending copies of my novel to prospective publishers. “Do you feel like you’ve woken up in a Britain you just don’t recognise?” read the email header. Within a day, we had requests to publish it, including one from an editor at Penguin with the comment. “Fucking timely book, isn’t it?”
The book, Liberation Square, is a thriller set in Soviet-occupied London in 1952. Britain is split between a democratic north and a communist south, with a wall running through London like a scar. It’s a world turned upside down from the one that we know, positing historical events that turned out diametrically opposite to how we know them to be – an “alternative history”, as they are known. And it’s one of a surge of such books hitting the shelves right now.
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