Graham Greene / Bernard Bergonzi -- Arthur Koestler / John Atkins -- Samuel Beckett / Jean-Jacques Mayoux -- William Golding / Stephen Medcalf -- Lawrence Durrell / Keith Brown and Martin Dodsworth -- Patrick White / R.F. Brissenden -- Angus Wilson / K.W. Gransden -- Dylan Thomas / Leslie Norris -- Anthony Burgess / Carol Dix -- Muriel Spark / Ruth Whittaker -- Iris Murdoch / A.S. Byatt -- Doris Lessing / Michael Thorpe -- Paul Scott / Patrick Swinden -- Philip Larkin / Alan Brownjohn -- John Fowles / Michael Thorpe -- Peter Shaffer / John Russell Taylor -- John Osborne / Simon Trussler -- Ted Hughes / Keith Sagar -- Harold Pinter / John Russell Taylor -- V.S. Naipaul / Michael Thorpe -- David Storey / John Russell Taylor -- Edward Bond / Simon Trussler -- Tom Stoppard / C.W.E. Bigsby
Summary
Covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the fourteenth century to the present day. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis
