David Lodge
Paradise News
85%
Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to…
Nice Work
56%
When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks…
Changing Places
55%
When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American…
The British Museum is Falling Down
76%
»The British Museum is Falling Down» is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human…
The Campus Trilogy
87%
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' — Time Out. Three brilliantly…
Out of the Shelter
99%
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done…
Small World: An Academic Romance
55%
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle, the lovely Angelica — the jet-propelled academics…
The British Museum is Falling Down
76%
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published,…
Deaf Sentence
58%
Retired Professor of Linguistics Desmond Bates is going deaf. It's a bother for his wife who has an…
Deaf Sentence
58%
A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalist Desmond Bates is…
Nice Work
56%
Back in Rummidge, scene of Changing Places, Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English literature…
Out of the Shelter
99%
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and post-war shortages have done little to enrich…
The British Museum is Falling Down
76%
The rhythm method is the curse of Adam Appleby's life and the cause of his children's. As his…
Changing Places
55%
Euphoric State University, with its whitestone, sundrenched campus, and England's damp red-brick…
How Far Can You Go?
95%
How far could they go? On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the…
Ginger, You're Barmy
59%
When it isn't prison, it's hell — or at least that's the belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and…
Home Truths
68%
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the A-level syllabus, is…
Author, Author
66%
Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, «Author, Author» begins in…