/lit/ - Literature

I had a dream the other day in which I read a book which seemed to be a noir detective story, involving several murders, set in the 1940s or 1950s, in an alternate history in which Britain underwent a Communist revolution after World War I. The action took place in London. The protagonist's surname was Brown. The only concrete detail I remember is that at one point a character quotes a statement made by "State Councillor Bertrand Russell."

Did I hallucinate this? Or is this a real book of which I have forgotten the title? If it's real I want to read it.

General "books you have read in dreams, which may or may not exist" thread.

>finish a book
>start another one, completely unrelated
>it mentions the previous one

>shitloads of women are unpleasant and downright revolting
>shitloads of men are unpleasant and downright revolting
>women still look at an average man like me and even by comparison don't want anything to do with me
what even is good enough anymore?

>>21027781
That one hour is so glorious. It makes me feel like I could strangle a baby elephant to death with my bare hands. Then the rest of the day I'm stuck in a suicidal malaise.

>airedale terrier
>border collie
>cheshire cat
>clydesdale horse
>herefordshire cow
>highland cow
>jersey cow
>jersey giant chicken
>manx cat
>scottish terrier
>shetland pony
>west highland terrier
>yorkshire terrier

leaped leapt , speeded sped, dragged drug, kneeled knelt, spelled spelt, worked wrought, brung brought, roasted roast, sat seated, boned deboned, wood wooden, bleeded bled, sprang sprung, tsked, cleaved cleft, covert cover over overt clover lover

exclusively non-fiction, (((conspiratorial))), and in general stuff that details how fucked and corrupt everything is and always was.
shit is making me sick. please recommend some positive books that i can read before going to bed. maybe something good about positive thinking/optimism/happiness please
thanks

>>20003873
>>20003878
>rhymes hung with behung