• Landscape view looking out across a large body of water. Land is just visible on the horizon, there is a line of trees on the shore, and in the immediate foreground there is a rough stone wall.

The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

Where is the twenty-first century British novel headed?  The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 answers this question in the light of three recent literary developments.  The first is aesthetic:  early twentieth-first century novelists are going beyond conventional realism, and in…