Up until a few seconds ago when I checked,I thought Colin Wilson wrote Life During Wartime. He didn’t. But you could start with that. 
In fairness to Colin Wilson, I read Space Vampires and all the Spider World books (around the same time I read Life During Wartime, hence the confusion) and I don’t remember them being particularly bad.
I still have Space Vampires, but I lent out the Spider World books and never got them back so they can’t have been that bad.
