• Watercolour landscape showing a coastline with building and mine shafts dotted along the shore. In the background there are fields leading to hills.

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…