The Squire Quartet

The Squire Quartet
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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.

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Brian Aldiss. The Squire Quartet

BRIAN ALDISS. The Squire Quartet

Table of Contents

Introduction. The Squire Quartet

BRIAN ALDISS. Life in the West

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Prelude

1. The International Congress

2. Flattery and Higher Foolishness

3. A View from the Beach

4. Conversation with ‘Drina’s’

5. She’s Only a Sex Symbol

6. Putting Our Socialist Friends to Rights

7. Land Full of Strange Gods

8. Sublimated Coin Warfare

9. How to Get to Ostrow Lomelsky

10. Slatko

11 ‘The Strong Act as They Have Power to Act’

12. Tribal Customs

13. Illegal Currency Charges

14. An Ideological Decision

Acknowledgements

BRIAN ALDISS. Forgotten Life

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

BRIAN ALDISS. Remembrance Day

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. A Visionary

2. Displaced

3. Despatched

4. Adopted

5. Accepted

6. Salvation

BRIAN ALDISS. Somewhere East of Life

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

1. Friends in Sly Places

2. Murder in a Cathedral

3. Bishops Linctus

4. FOAM

5. Some Expensive Bullets

6. Soss City

7 ‘The Dead One’

8. Looking for a Postcard

9. A Head Among the Throng

10 ‘Time Had Run Out’

11 ‘The Madonna of Futurity’

12. A Crowded Stage

13. Richard and Blanche

14. In the Korean Fast Foot

15. Makhtumkuli Day

16. Burnell Speaks!

17. Glimpse of Airing Cupboard

18. The Friendship Bridge

19. A Toe and a Tow

20. PRICC Strikes

21. Subterfuge

22. A Brief Discourse on Justice

23. To the Krasnovodsk Station

24. Singing in the Train

25. Snow in the Desert

26. The Executioner

27. Squire Ad Libs

28. Open to the Public

29 ‘Newcastle’

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Life in the West

Forgotten Life

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‘You’re not.’

‘What sort of butterfly is it, anyway?’

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