A ruthless satire of academic life, The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury is a witty campus novel a...

'Eminently readable . . . perceptive and poignant' Time OutFrancis Jay is a man of the nineties. ...

'The work of a master, and a master not only of language and comedy, but of feeling too' - The Su...

Stuart Treece, a forty-year-old professor and head of English, now rather set in his ways (Hannib...

To the Hermitage tells two tales: a contemporary story of our narrator, a novelist, who has been ...

'It is funny, exact - and pretty bloody serious' Observer

Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction.- PART 1: COMPOSITION: 1912-24.- PART ...

Slaka! Land of lake and forest, of beetroot and tractor. Slaka! Land whose borders are sometimes ...

'A master not only of language and comedy but of feeling too' Sunday Times

To the Hermitage tells two stories. The first is of the narrator, a novelist, on a trip to Stockh...

Who Do You Think You Are?

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, e...

An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of ...

Take a Valium. Have a party. Go on a demo. Shoot a soldier. Make a bang. Bed a friend. That's you...

Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1992.

A concise history of modern American literature From Modernist Postmodernist perspective, leading...

'Shortly after his plane first grazes the tarmac in the eastern European nation of Slaka, Dr. Ang...

Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1965.

Forty-year-old university professor Stuart Treece is rather set in his ways, and in the midst of ...

Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1987.

'First published as Phogey! [or], how to have class in a classless society ... 1960'--Title page ...

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories, edited by novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury,...