The Squire Quartet

For the first time ever, all four books in the Squire Quartet collected in one volume.

Set during the last years of the Cold War, and spanning the duration of Thatcher’s Britain, The Squire Quartet follows the political, professional and private adventures of a group of linked characters. It is a vivid fictional portrait of Britain’s recent history.

All four volumes – Life in the West, Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day and Somewhere East of Life – are collected here for the first time in one volume and for the first time in ebook form.

Reviews

Praise for the books in the Squire Quartet:

‘Excited me more than anything else I’ve read this year.’ ANTHONY BURGESS

‘A long, handsome ingenious novel about war and peace, very funny, very sad, full of closely seen, closely thought detail, wise exotic and entertaining.’ IRIS MURDOCH

‘Aldiss delivers his storylines with joie de vivre, his dialogue is impeccable, and his narrative is glazed with customary wit.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Packs in enough detailed research and relevance for a dozen novels with contemporary settings.’ LITERARY REVIEW

‘A complex, thoughtful and beguiling story by one of our best novelists.’ WILLIAM BOYD'

For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers' THE TELEGRAPH

About the author

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 ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.