Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.

Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.

The book explores records that MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, maintained on influential left-wing writers from 1930 to 1960.

Essays on British and Irish novelists discusses the combination of desperation and avant-gardism, bestsellers, masterpieces, competing technologies, hyper ficti

-- Covers 200 of the most important women writers of English -- Groups authors culturally and by genre, from 18th-century diarists to new writers of experimenta