The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Realism Versus Modernism: Win, Lose or Draw?.

1. Before Now. A Brief Account of the Pre-1970s British Novel.

2. Something Unusual: Martin Amis and Ian McEwan.

3. The Effects of Thatcherism.

4. The New Postmodernists.

Part II: Excursions From the Ordinary.

5. The New Historical Novel.

6. Crime and Spy Fiction.

Part III: Sex.

7. Women.

8. Men.

9. Gay Fiction.

Part IV: Nation, Race and Place.

10. Scotland.

11. England, Englishness and Class.

12. The Question of Elsewhere.

13. Wales.

14. The Troubles.

15. Epilogue: The State of the Novel.

Select Bibliography: Recommended Further Reading.

Index