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2003... film extras attend the royal coaches, American generals make the Big Decisions, war is looming in Europe... the Great 'British' Government- Hooray! - has eliminated unemployment at a stroke. By making everyone shareholders in the New Companies scheme, they've reinflated the economy and given jobs to all. So what if they take your dole to buy shares with - if you're a shareholder, you can't be unemployed, can you? Even the Queen, so anxious to do her bit, has changed her name and backed one of the New Companies, joining in that happy shareholding feeling with the rest of her subjects. Dimly aware, however, that she's stranded, trapped in a crumbling tourist attraction, a victim of neglect, vicious cuts and an exotically evil Lady-in-Waiting, she dreams of the Divine Right. Only Old Malcolm wails for Britannia, every morning, without fail... The Government has the country well sewn up - every election fixed, every security risk obliterated, every flake checked out. But what if Britannia, dotty though she is, were restored to her former glory? You thought times were bad? Relax. Geoffrey Cush's savagely funny first novel shows you how bad things could be. 'Cush's cast and setting are essentially Dickensian... His decaying, slightly mad Queen stalking the corridors of a ransacked palace is comically touching. A bleak and funny picture of London in the future' CITY LIMITS 'An ingeniously wicked parable - executed without a hint of malice towards the lady in question. Mr Cush knows his stuff Armistead Maupin, author of TALES OF THE CITY 'Cush's economy with both sentences and the book's Overall structure shows an impressive grip on authorial ego, and there's a hawk-eyed sharpness about his writing. Hiked it' Q MAGAZINE