Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban (SH)Riddley Walker is a genre defying historically influenced science fiction road novel set in post apocalyptic Kent, years after a nuclear catastrophe has plunged England back into a second Iron Age. Survivors huddle in fenced settlements, packs of killer dogs roam the chalk downs and the rudimentary government communicates its policies through travelling puppet shows that fuse Punch and Judy, the medieval myth of St Eustace, elements of the New