The Constant Rabbit

Jasper Fforde

Hodder & Stoughton £20

This serious-minded comedy is set in an alternate present where the ruling UK Anti-Rabbit Party, or Ukarp, persecutes a group of human-sized rabbits who sprang up in Britain in the 1960s. The narrator, Peter, confronts his own prejudice when a rabbit family moves into his village, causing outrage among locals. The real-world parallels are obvious, but as an allegory it risks flippancy.