Radio Activity by Murray, John

First published in 1993, Radio Activity was immediately hailed by the critics as a comic tour de force, and was listed in both the Spectator and Independent Books of the Year.

John Murray's riotously tall tale (or is it?) about Chernobyl, Sellafield, valve radios and Morocco is reissued to coincide with the publication of his satellite TV fantasy, Murphy's Favourite Channels. Read together, they provide a highly original not to say hilarious critique of the modern media and their unnerving effect on contemporary society.

Praise for RADIO ACTIVITY

'A wonderfully comic novel.' - William Palmer, London Magazine

'Enormously accomplished and ambitious.The very model of a political novel. It is also without doubt the only novel published this year which has had me, at times, helpless with laughter.' - Jonathan Coe, The Guardian

'A rumbustious comic novel.' - DJ Taylor, The Independent

'A totally mad satire. It made me laugh out loud.' - Margaret Forster

'Gloriously funny.' - William Scammell, The Spectator

John Murray was born in West Cumbria and now lives with his wife and daughter in Brampton, near Carlisle. In 1984 he founded the prestigious fiction magazine Panurge, which he and David Almond edited until 1996. He has published a collection of stories, Pleasure, for which he received the Dylan Thomas Award , in 1988, and six novels, Samarkand, Kin, Radio Activity, Reiver Blues, John Dory and Jazz Etc. John Dory won a Lakeland Book of the Year Award in 2002, and Jazz Etc. was longlisted for the Man-Booker Prize in 2003.

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