Year of Henry James

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.

"Full of fascinating stuff... Lodge has the fineness of judgment that James himself thought indispensable" Guardian "An absolutely invaluable document of the modern literary life" Independent "Lodge has fashioned a wise and provocative study...far more than the sum of its parts" -- John Banville Irish Times