Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Wild life | 27 July 2017

The family are staying on the coast where it’s safe

issue 29 July 2017

Kenya

  We are on the beach, where our home is full of dystopian stories. My daughter Eve is whizzing through her A-level summer reading list, and as we share her books around we all have our noses in post-third world war Australia, the Republic of Gilead, in a submarine London and totalitarian future states.
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