PapRise

As he fled the Red Army in the winter of 1956, Zoltan Papp couldn’t have dreamt that his invention would spawn the greatest company ever seen. But even as his name adorned the world’s tallest tower, Papp had seen little of PapCorp’s riches. And he wasn’t the only one.
In the Manchester township of Rusholme, Minnie Brownlow had no interest in the Zoltan Papp Tower as it rose over the Bio-dome roofs. It was all she could do to avoid it, while a thousand miles south the Talavera family hadn’t seen the news for years. When finally, they returned from exile in the mountains, they found their home cut off by a PapCorp advert for aliens.
Hope came in the form of the Radical Alliance of Socialist and anti-Capitalist Associations on the Left, or RASCAL. But with PapCorp infiltrators everywhere, what hope was there?
PapRise straddles historical and futuristic fiction as it tells five stories bound up in PapCorp, the world’s greatest corporation.

Author Biography

Adam R. Mathews is a novelist and a teacher, a scientist and a cyclist. Equally at home managing language schools or running degrowth workshops, he is an incessant traveller and a keen localist.
After the concept of an all-pervasive corporation came to him while walking in Manchester’s Whitworth Park, Adam spent a decade stewing on his neo-liberal dystopia before he started to write. In that time, he lived across Europe, from Budapest to Madrid, immersing himself in the cultures, quirks and social movements of his adopted homes.
Adam weaves his experiences into his writing, to make fiction that challenges the shortcomings of neo-liberalism. His first novel Pap came out in 2016, but the foundation tale PapRise is the book he always wanted to write. He recently moved back to the UK in order to promote his work. Find out more at www.aimlesswanderer.org