My Reviews

After reading and loving 'Courting Rendition', I eagerly awaited Maggie Allder's second book in the trilogy. 'Living with the Leopard' didn't disappoint, meeting and surpassing all my expectations.

The book takes place a few years later. England and the US are still in the 'New Alliance'. Maggie Allder was prescient: her books were written before Brexit, before Donald Trump, and before the nascent rise of the extreme right in many countries.

Once again, Allder's main characters are normal people going about their normal lives. But, always looming again, is the dreaded ATTF (the Anti-Terrorist Task Force) and the new 'economics … See more

This the fourth of Maggie’s books that I’ve read, the first three being a trilogy whilst this is a stand-alone novel. I was given this book and have enjoyed all her novels, and feel her writing is now even more fluid and that she has developed a very readable and captivating style of writing. It is set in England in a post Brexit world, where UK has allied with USA, not really beneficial for many in the country. It focuses on one boy in a settlement – but I don’t want to say too much and give the plot away. … See more

In Maggie Allder's former trilogy she presciently sounded the alarm of the consequences of England's and Amerca's rightward turn to isolationism and authoritarianism, way before Brexit and Trump.

In 'The Song of the Lost Boy' she issues another clarion call, and once again, without polemics. Rather, as in her trilogy books, it is a gripping suspense story, ignominiously told from a young orphan boy's perspective who is experiencing the neo-fascism of a closed and perilous society ruled by 'the Alliance' between England and America.

The boy, Giorgio, lives a rag-tag existence as part of a group of outcasts deemed 'feckless' … See more

Maggie Allder's much anticipated third book in her trilogy, "A Vision Softly Creeping", comes with a surprising and satisfying narrator twist.

"A Vision Softly Creeping", like the first two books in the trilogy, is a stand-alone suspense thriller. If you haven't read "Courting Rendition" and "Living with the Leopard" - do so. All will enhance the others.

Allder's first two novels were written before Brexit, before Trumpism, before the alt-right movements in Europe and other world countries. Her novels presciently foretell a world where these forces have gained control of England and America - the New Alliance. She paints a … See more

Life looks promising for Carrie and Tom even though they belong to a religious organisation deemed ‘extremist’ by the right-wing government of their day. They belong in a stable community but all that changes when they are invited to take part in activities to help the hungry, deemed subversive by the authorities. Soon, they are subject to a raid from the dreaded ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), whilst sheltering a wanted person in their own home. The situation worsens when Carrie becomes ill, is threatened with total benefit cuts and the couple can no longer tell who they can trust. Their … See more