Category Archives: Modern Classics

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

For most people, A Clockwork Orange brings to mind a Stanley Kubrick film rather than an Anthony Burgess book and everyone seems to know about the infamous rape scene which saw the movie banned and achieve cult status at the … Continue reading

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The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

With his mother gone, his brother locked up in a psychiatric hospital and only his eccentric farther for company, Frank has by no means had an ordinary childhood. But then again Frank is by no means an ordinary child. Although … Continue reading

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