David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

"The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written" London Review of Books "Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page" The Times "Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before" Sunday Telegraph "A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes" Observer

David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

"The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written" London Review of Books "Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page" The Times "Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before" Sunday Telegraph "A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes" Observer