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Utopia
Peter Cowlam, author
Utopia follows the fortunes of Zora Murillo, who escapes the clutches of a military junta, and landing in a small English market town buys and renovates the Pleiades, a rundown hotel. The Pleiades is soon transformed into a living cabaret act and hotbed of political activism. Soon the locals want to know the source of Zora’s unfathomable wealth, yet only one of them knows her back story, which is of espionage, the sinister deployment of AI and robotics, and a life-and-death political struggle for her and her father.
Reviews
Jon Elsby on Amazon
In spite of the tragic circumstances in which it was written (as detailed in the book's endpapers), Utopia combines colourful characters, political corruption and intrigue, social commentary, and developments in technology which are at least potentially sinister, in a fast-paced, dazzlingly contrapuntal narrative. This is a worthy pendant to Peter Cowlam's novels New King Palmers (winner of the 2018 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction) and Across the Rebel Network.