If your formative memories include the dial-up screech, the agony of taping the Top 40 off Radio 1 only for Mark Goodier to talk over the outro, and the strange social currency of owning a MiniDisc player nobody else had, this list is for you. This isn't a vague roundup of time travel novels. These are books that drop you into the 1990s, or close enough to taste the Sunny D and feel the static off a Findus Crispy Pancake. I've split the list into three sections: modern British nostalgia (the … continue reading
1990s
Britpop, dial-up and the last truly analogue decade. Keith A Pearson on the 1990s: the era behind the Echo Lane novels.