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In David Lodge's last novel, Thinks... the novelist Henry James was invisibly present in quotation and allusion. In Author, Author he is centre stage,...
An Academic Romance
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make...
Ralph Messenger is a man who knows what he wants and generally gets it. Approaching his fiftieth birthday, he has good reason to feel pleased with him...
When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide hea...
Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack...
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A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason tha...
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the 'A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatw...
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each acade...
Helen Reed, a novelist in her early forties, still grieving for her husband who died suddenly a year before, is a visiting teacher of creative writing...
Discusses the art of fiction under a wide range of topics, each illustrated by a short passage taken from classic and modern fiction....
When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the Britis...
The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the st...
A Play
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the A level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwic...
A Reader
This third edition of Modern Criticism and Theory represents a major expansion on its previous incarnations with some twenty five new pieces or essays...
In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his wo...
Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping - even rediscovery - by the natural sciences, driven by devel...
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and ensuing post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything chan...
Secret operations, sealed orders, high-risk military special operations ... such dangerous missions have been at the core of the Star Trek Vanguard se...
Welcome to the Palladium, Brickley. Once the grandest music-hall south of the river, now its peeling foyer is home to stale popcorn, a depressed manag...
A Comedy
David Lodge’s first full-length play examines that curious fixture in the writing game where the amateurs meet the professionals – on a course in ...
The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else... In ...
Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university ...
Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work
"A trio of dazzling novels in a comic mode that the author has now made completely his own...a cause for celebration." -The New York Times Book Review...
A Memoir: 1935-1975
'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a l...
A Novel
The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made...
And Other Essays on Fiction and Criticism
Trods rigdom og et trygt privatliv er Laurence Passmore's tilværelse ved at gå i spåner. Hans angstfornemmelser fører til mødet med Kierkegaards ...
Mission and return to the West. The result is a remarkable, psychologically charged exploration of fear and crossed frontiers. Author and playwright G...
Essays, Lectures, Reviews and a Diary
First published in 1996, this is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on the relationship between creative writing, the teaching ...
Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, ...
Presents a story inspired by the intimate relationships of H. G. Wells, who at the end of his life evaluates his professional, political, and romantic...
A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overl...
Essays on Fiction and Criticism
"If the 1960s was the decade of structuralism, and the 1970s the decade of deconstruction, then the 1980s have been dominated by the discovery and dis...
A Memoir: 1976-1991
‘A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer’s life’ William Boyd Luck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer’s career....
Twentieth Century Literary Criticismis a major anthology of key representative works by fifty leading modern literary critics writing before the struc...