By Russell Hoban

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban wanders through a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape.

What Max Porter Says: “If you know, you know. A post-apocalyptic adventure told in a new dialect, full of puppet shows and weird salvaged scraps of our civilisation. I’ve read it maybe 10 times and each time I’m as terrified, lonely and exhilarated as the first time. Like all great innovations in literature, it teaches you to read it as you go, and by the end you are fundamentally changed.”  

What They Say: “This is what literature is meant to be.” – Anthony Burgess

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