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Book SynopsisDavid 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.
Trade ReviewLodge is a clear, sceptical writer, wise about things and a careful reader and in general kind even to people who plainly irritate him -- Sam Leith * Spectator *
Lodge’s animating spark is his sedulousness, his ability to marshal the facts, pronounce a judgement and then subtly qualify it -- DJ Taylor * Independent on Sunday *
Lodge, too original a writer to set down a conventional autobiography, reveals himself in fragments, an anecdote here, a recollection there. The collection, then, is a kind of trick: portraits of others disguising a book about himself... This is a hybrid work, well-suited to its hybrid author – rooted in fact but entranced by fiction -- Sophie Elmhirst * Financial Times *
The shrewd, amused intellect that Lodge brings to bear makes this collection a consistent pleasure… Wise and genial -- Tim Martin * The Times *
Generous but discriminating, lucid without sacrificing complexity -- Theo Tait * Sunday Times *
