FoxANTHONY GARDNER (ARDLEEVAN PRESS, 264 PP, £17.99)Tablet bookshop price £16.20 • Tel 01420 592974 Notwithstanding this year’s 500th anniversary of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, the fictional imagination appears to derive more productive stimulus from the dystopian – or, to borrow the preferred term of Anthony Burgess, “cacotopian” – parallel world. Dublin-born Anthony Gardner's first novel was The Rivers of Heaven, a lyrical, deft interweaving of three separate stories. In a change of gear, his highly readable second novel Fox takes us on a fast-paced journey through a disturbing but recognisably contemporary world (rather than a wildly improbable Huxleyan future) whose permissibly implaus­ible premise is that the ban on fox-hunting