The Game is Altered by Mez Packer – review
A life lived in the real and the virtual worldMez Packer's second novel is set in the near future. Mobile phones are now called Googles and "status has become something that people update, rather than earn". Lionel lives alone in a shabby flat opp...
Jenn Ashworth: Why I refused to go to school
'Who wants to be locked into a room with 30 people dressed just like them, to be startled by a bell every 35 minutes, to queue for lunch for 40 minutes and be made to stand outside in the cold twice a day?' Jenn Ashworth most definitely did not…We we...

