John Fraser's latest work of fiction, Happy Always, asks: what is human culture? Does it change through time, or is it always rooted in our species, the animal within? How do we recognise our animality? When we die what do we leave behind?
John Fraser's latest novel Happy Always concerns two journeys. In Here and Back Again, the young narrator escapes from his isolated village, lives poor in Paris, is involved in marginal schemes which bring him close to a police unit. The unit is disgraced...