Contemporary Novelists

PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He is the author of a number of student texts on twentieth-century literature and culture.

Praise for first edition: 'Well-conceived, well-written and perspicacious.' - Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Villanova University, USA 'This book will be useful in the lecture room and can be commended as support for undergraduate courses in the field.' - Modern Language Review 'Will be popular with students of contemporary fiction. This study carves an admirably clear and informative path through a great range of subjects...a useful student handbook.' - Times Literary Supplement Praise for the second edition: 'A good, comprehensive overview of contemporary fiction with well-chosen chapters on important novelists, and illuminating commentary on those novelists.' - Merritt Moseley, Professor of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA

• Introduction: The Novel Today and YesterdayTimelineMartin Amis: Lucre, Love and LiteraturePat Barker: In the Shadow of MonstrositiesJulian Barnes: 'A Mixture of Genres'Angela Carter: The Demythologizing BusinessKazuo Ishiguro: Remain in DreamsHanif Kureishi: In Black and WhiteIan McEwan: The Child in Us AllSalman Rushdie: A Long Geographical PerspectiveZadie Smith: Searching for the InescapableGraham Smith: Past PresentIrvine Welsh: Sex and Drugs and ViolenceJeanette Winterson: Boundaries and DesireNew NovelistsConclusionIndex.