Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.

'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.'

• Introduction: The Spatial Turn; 1. The Last of England?; 2. The End of Empire and the Break-Up of Britain; 3. The Importance of Ephemera; 4. High Rise; 5. The Feminist Satire of Monarchic Culture; 6. A Borderless World; 7. A Small Island; Bibliography; Index.

Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.

'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.'

• Introduction: The Spatial Turn; 1. The Last of England?; 2. The End of Empire and the Break-Up of Britain; 3. The Importance of Ephemera; 4. High Rise; 5. The Feminist Satire of Monarchic Culture; 6. A Borderless World; 7. A Small Island; Bibliography; Index.

Hywel Dix is a part-time tutor in English at the Cardiff University Centre for Lifelong Learning and works full time at a major arts centre in Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre.

'Starting from the mutually-informing perspectives of postmodernism and political devolution, this fascinating study gives shape to a new configuration of British postmodernist novelists, from Byatt and Barnes to Levy, O'Hagan, Barry and Seiffert amongst others. Dix persuasively demonstrates the self-confessed 'conjuring trick' of locating in the novels an often satirical, paradoxically 'planetary' concern with Britishness. Exciting and innovative, yet strongly grounded in a left-orientated historical analysis of postcolonial British culture that builds on the work of Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn.'

• Introduction: The Spatial Turn; 1. The Last of England?; 2. The End of Empire and the Break-Up of Britain; 3. The Importance of Ephemera; 4. High Rise; 5. The Feminist Satire of Monarchic Culture; 6. A Borderless World; 7. A Small Island; Bibliography; Index.