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Which are the 100 best novels ever written in the English language? No list could [...]
No Atwood. No Pynchon. No Vonnegut. No Julian Barnes, no Patricia Highsmith, no Martin Amis, [...]
The ripples from Robert McCrum’s 100 best novels column, which reached its end on Sunday, [...]
1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678) A story of a man in search [...]
“Best of” lists are strange and silly things, particularly in the realm of books: as [...]
Peter Carey arrived exuberantly on the international literary scene as the dominant Australian writer of [...]
In the parlour game called “Humiliation”, in David Lodge’s 70s campus novel Changing Places, the [...]
Disgrace was a Booker prize winner in 1999, making JM Coetzee the first writer to [...]
As this series approaches the present, the process of making a final selection from great [...]
John McGahern was a great Irish writer among a brilliant generation that included the playwright [...]
Anne Tyler shares with Jane Austen, (No 7 in this series) both a fascination with [...]
