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| On The Holloway Road
| | Andrew Blackman
| The novel is a clash of American mythology with contemporary British reality. Jack Maertens and Neil Blake are tired of life on London’s Holloway Road and set out north in search of meaning and freedom. Along the way they listen to a scratchy old cassette recording of Jack Kerouac’s Beat classic On the Road, and find their journey consciously and unconsciously mirroring that of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty. They discover, however, that the horizons of 2008 Britain are considerably more limited than those of 1950s America, and their attempts to lead a spontaneous life are dogged at every turn by speed cameras, policemen and CCTV.
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