Facial Justice

Release Date: 4 September £ 9.99 | Author: LP Hartley Publisher: Penguin

This 1960 dystopia from the author of The Go- Between is set in a postapocalyptic Britain which goes to such lengths to achieve equality that the “facially over- privileged” have plastic surgery to make them less attractive. A playful satire on how egalitarianism may lead to mediocrity, it will probably chime with anyone who’s ever railed against the “nanny state”.