December Books 22) The Next Generation, vol. I, by John Francis Maguire
I'll write this up in full next year when I read volumes II and III; just to note for now that it is a political novel written by an Irish MP in 1871, set twenty years in the future (ie 1891) in a Utopian future Westminster with women MPs, Irish Home Rule, and a recent British conquest of China. After much searching I found all three volumes available from iTunes.
