England – The Modern Novel

Ellis Sharp: Pig Tale

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Post published:17 April 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Pig Tale. This is a very witty book, damning human foibles, told from the point of view of a five year…

Ellis Sharp: Month of the Drowned Dog

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Post published:13 April 2023
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The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Month of the Drowned Dog. This is a decidedly postmodern novel, as we might expect from Sharp. Sharp, the author, tells…

Jonathan Coe: Bournville

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Post published:1 November 2022
Post category:England Racism The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Coe's Bournville. This might be described as a state of the nation novel, as we follow an extended family from VE Day…

Ian McEwan: Lessons

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Post published:10 September 2022
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The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Lessons. This is McEwan's longest novel and tells the story of Roland Baines, his friends and family from World War II…

Ellis Sharp: Alice in Venice

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Post published:14 March 2022
Post category:England The Modern Novel website Venice
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The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Alice in Venice. Alice Short is on holiday in Venice to visit the varioius sites where the film Don’t Look Now…

Robert Irwin: The Limits of Vision

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Post published:13 March 2022
Post category:England Housework Thomas Hardy
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The latest addition to my website is Robert Irwin's The Limits of Vision. Marcia is an English housewife seemingly obsessed with cleanliness. When her vacuum cleaner breaks down, just before…

Adelle Stripe & Lias Saoudi: Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure

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Post published:11 March 2022
Post category:England Music The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Adelle Stripe & Lias Saoudi's Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. This book is a fictional biography and…

Robert Irwin: The Runes Have Been Cast

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Post published:30 November 2021
Post category:Campus novel England Ghosts The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Robert Irwin's The Runes Have Been Cast. This is a very funny spoof campus novel/spoof ghost story, set in the early 1960s. Two…

Ellis Sharp: Twenty-Twenty

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Post published:26 October 2021
Post category:England Palestine Politics The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Twenty-Twenty. This is a diary, influenced by Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage (Anniversaries), which he reads and comments on, in the early part…

Sarah Hall: Burntcoat

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Post published:11 October 2021
Post category:Art England Pandemic The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Sarah Hall's Burntcoat. Our heroine is Edith Harknesss. We follow her life from when she was ten and her mother, a successful novelist,…