Andy Meinker, Houseman's Peace

Houseman's Peace bookshop, which describes itself as 'London's premier radical bookshop' prides itself on its wide coverage of politics, political theory, peace studies, and world current affairs. Here, Andy Meinker recommends The Fountain at the Centre of the World by Robert Newman.

Although Rob Newman is better known as a comedian, not least for the widely-remembered Mary Whitehouse Experience, he has also written three novels, of which this one is a fictionalised version of the founding of the anti-capitalist movements in the late-1990s. Andy says; "Rob is bringing back the key issue in the world today which is not the war on terror or any of the other distractions, but the question of how we're to found an ecologically sustainable and fair future society. I thoroughly recommend this as the most entertaining way of approaching that subject."