Contemporary British Novelists

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Martin Amis to Ian McEwan, Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and an analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, "Contemporary British Novelists" is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.

Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guide to the contemporary literary scene. Each entry includes concise biographical information on each of the key novelists and analysis of their major works and themes. Fully cross-referenced and containing extensive guides to further reading, Fifty Contemporary British Novelists is the ideal guide to modern British fiction for both the student and the contemporary fiction buff alike.

Peter Ackroyd; Martin Amis; Kate Atkinson; Beryl Bainbridge; J.G. Ballard; Iain Banks; Nicola Barker; Pat Barker; Julian Barnes; Louis de Bernieres; William Boyd; A.S. Byatt; Jonathan Coe; Jenny Diski; Helen Dunmore; Robert Edric; Sebastian Faulks; Tibor Fischer; Margaret Forster; Alasdair Gray; Philip Hensher; Alan Hollinghurst; Nick Hornby; Kazuo Ishiguro; Howard Jacobson; James Kelman; A.L. Kennedy; Hanif Kureishi; John Lanchester; Shena Mackay; Hilary Mantel; Ian McEwan; Patrick McGrath; Timothy Mo; Lawrence Norfolk; Caryl Phillips; Christopher Priest; Michele Roberts; Jane Rogers; Salman Rushdie; Will Self; Iain Sinclair; Graham Swift; Adam Thorpe; Rose Tremain; Barry Unsworth; Alan Warner; Irvine Welsh; Jeanette Winterson

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