> Lacking the shame Never be ashamed. Sweet Tooth[0] is an interesting novel. It's about how the (British) MI5 involves itself with artists to promote anti-co

> Lacking the shame Never be ashamed. Sweet Tooth[0] is an interesting novel. It's about how the (British) MI5 involves itself with artists to promote anti-communism in the 70's. The novel opens itself up to to discovering Francis Stonor Saunders' "Who Paid the Piper"[1] which is a book about how the CIA used literature as a cultural weapon against the Soviet Union, also very interesting. Ian McEwen can take us to all sorts of strange places. I'm not a big reader of McEwan, but the next thing on my shelf is "Solar" which looks quite interesting. If you want to expand your reading outside of McEwan then dip into his pal Martin Amis and his earlier works such as Dead Babies, or even The Rachel Papers (ignore the film). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Tooth_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Tooth_(novel) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Paid_the_Piper%3F