After Pavane
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
Pavane haunted you with its Catholic hegemony strangling progress—now Kingsley Amis erases the Reformation entirely, tightening the Church's grip around throats and imaginations. The Alteration channels that same elegiac ache for unrealized futures, wrapping personal tragedy in atmospheric world-building that rewards every skeptical, literary instinct you brought to Roberts's pseudo-medieval England.