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2008 Financial Crisis, 2, 275 The Nature of the Offence, 269 9/11 Attacks, 2, 52, 57, 58, 63, 99, 241, 248, The Rachel Papers, 6 266, 269, 274–5, 276, 277, 278, 293 Time’s Arrow, 169, 207, 208, 269 Anderson, Benedict Acker, Kathy, 138 Imagined Communities: Reﬂections on the Ackroyd, Peter, 9, 22, 39, 92, 111 Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Chatterton, 22 48, 49 Hawksmoor, 22, 92 Asher, Neal, 152 Adair, Gilbert, 260 Aslam, Nadeem Adichie, Chimanda Ngozi, 169 The Wasted Vigil, 60, 61 Adiseshiah, Sian, 3 Athill, Diana, 108, 109 Afghanistan Atwood, Margaret, 119, 169 Afghanistan War, 2, 5, 58–61, 241, 266, The Handmaid’s Tale, 161, 222 269, 275, 293 The MaddAddam Trilogy, 160 Soviet Occupation, 60, 258 Austen, Jane Agamben, Giorgio, 73 Emma, 52 Ahmed, Sara, 231 AIDS/HIV crisis, 82 Bailey’s Prize, The, 124 Aldiss, Brian Bainbridge, Beryl, 112 Greybeard, 164 Baird, Wilhelmina Ali, Monica Clipjoint, 153 Brick Lane, 26, 270 Crashcourse, 153 Allende, Isabel, 169 Psykosis, 153 Altman, Robert Bakhtin, Mikhail, 93 Gosford Park, 194 Bal, Mieke, 52 Amazon, 5, 116, 119, 122, 123, Baldwin, James, 215 126 Ballard, J.G., 8, 70–6, 78, 79, 81, 83, 84, 145, Kindle, 122 162, 238, 260, 262 Amis, Kingsley, 18, 97, 150, 256 Cocaine Nights, 70–6, 145 Amis, Martin, 6, 10, 18–20, 57, 110, 112, Crash, 145 114, 115, 201–3, 204, 205–9, 214, Empire of the Sun, 145, 260 215, 216, 259, 263, 276 Kingdom Come, 145 Dead Babies, 6 Millennium People, 145 Einstein’s Monsters, 263 Super-Cannes, 70–6, 145 London Fields, 19, 212 The Atrocity Exhibition, 145 Money, 6, 18, 19, 141–2, 205, 263 The Drowned World, 145, 162 Night Train, 207, 212 The Kindness of Women, 145 The Information, 110, 207, 212 Balzac, Honoré de, 99, 150

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Bangladesh, 24 Rockaby, 140 Banks, Iain, 260 The Unnamable, 139 Barker, Nicola, 8, 56, 57, 214 Waiting for Godot, 139 Darkmans, 169 Worstward Ho, 17 H(A)PPY, 56 Bellow, Saul, 17, 141, 201, 202, 203–6, 207, Barker, Pat, 8, 9, 17, 21, 29, 41, 139, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 268 215, 216 Blow Your House Down, 29 Herzog, 204, 211 Liza’s England, 21 The Adventures of Augie March, 37, Regeneration, 29, 41, 94, 268 204, 207 The Eye in the Door, 29 Bennett, Claire-Louise The Ghost Road, 29, 41 Pond, 100 The Regeneration Trilogy, 169, 221 Beowulf, 111 Union Street, 29 Berger, John Barnes, Julian, 6, 10, 17, 18, 20, 30, 39, 92, G, 110, 125 112, 125, 132, 201–2, 203, 205–6, Bergonzi, Bernard 207, 208, 209, 214, 215, 216 The Situation of the Novel, 202 A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Betjeman, John, 112 21, 92, 210, 214 Bhabha, Homi Arthur & George, 209 Nation and Narration, 48 Before She Met Me, 20 Blackwood, Algernon, 155 England, England, 210 Blair, Tony, 5, 32, 274, 275, Flaubert’s Parrot, 20, 21, 93, 207, 208, 279 210 Blairism, 276 Love, etc, 205, 210, 214 Bleasdale, Alan Metroland, 20 Boys from the Blackstuff (TV Series, 259 Talking it Over, 210, 214 Bolaño, Roberto, 170 The Sense of an Ending, 125, 209–10, 278 Booker Prize, The, 23, 27, 35–6, 40–1, 105, Baron-Cohen, Simon, 76 109, 110, 112, 114, 115, 119–20, 122, Barry, Sebastian, 169 124, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, 143, Barth, John, 138, 140, 204 161, 176, 177, 237, 239, 261, 264, Barthelme, Donald, 138 268–9 Barthes, Roland, 17, 91, 94, 140 Borges, Jorge Luis, 261 Mythologies, 91 Bosnian Genocide, The, 254, 265, 266 Baudrillard, Jean, 76, 81, 186 Boxall, Peter, 3 Baxter, Steven Boyd, William Flood, 165 Armadillo, 268 Beadle-Blair, Ricki, 232 Boyle, Danny Beaton, M. C., 157 Trainspotting (ﬁlm), 187, 195 Beatty, Paul, 119, 132 Bradbury, Malcolm, 204 Bauman, Zygmunt Brenton, Howard Liquid Modernity, 113 The Romans in Britain, 259 Beckett, Samuel, 1, 11, 17, 27, 107, 109, 139, Brenton, Howard and Hare, David 157, 290 Pravda, 259 Come and Go, 140 Brexit, 5, 11, 75, 145, 251, 252, 267, 270, Company, 17 276, 277, 279, 287, 291 Endgame, 139 British Commonwealth, The, 115, 126, 183, Happy Days, 139 256, 257, 258 Ill Seen Ill Said, 17 British Nationality Act of 1948, The, 23 Krapp’s Last Tape, 139 Britpop, 32, 38, 266 Malone Dies, 139 Brooke-Rose, Christine, 150, 260 Molloy, 139 Brookmyre, Christopher, 157 Ohio Impromptu, 140 Brown, Wendy, 2, 4 300

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Burdekin, Katharine Top Girls, 259 Swastika Night, 161 Cixous, Hélène, 82 Burgess, Anthony, 92 Cloning, 80, 81, 87, 161, 194 Earthly Powers, 109, 260 Coe, Jonathan Burn, Gordon, 151 What a Carve Up!, 40, 169 Alma Cogan, 169 Cold War, The, 256–8, 262, 263, 265, Happy Like Murderers 266, 268 The True Story of Fred and Rosemary Cole, Teju, 96 West, 159 Collins, Wilkie, 155 Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son Commonwealth, The, 23 The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper, 159 Connor, Steven, 3 Burroughs, William, 107, 138, 202, 204 The English Novel in History, 3 Butler, Judith, 94, 275, 293 Cookson, Catherine, 114 Butler, Octavia, 164 Costa Book Awards, 124 Byatt, A.S., 9, 40, 41, 92, 128, 192, 203 Cox, Jo, 5 ‘Morpho Eugenia’, 192, 193 Crace, Jim, 42, 161, 167 Possession, 40, 92, 94, 169 Being Dead, 42, 43 The Biographer’s Tale, 40, 94 The Pesthouse, 164 Cuarón, Alfonso Calvino, Italo Children of Men, 224 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, 163 Culler, Jonathan, 49 Carey, Peter, 132, 169 Cusk, Rachel, 96 Oscar and Lucinda, 176 Aftermath, 96 Caribbean, The, 23, 26, 125, 257, 266, 267 Outline, 96 Carpentier, Alejo, 261 Transit, 96 Caribbean, The, 38 Cyberpunk, 152, 153, 154, 156, 159, Jamaica, 27, 266 160 St. Kitts, 38 Cyborg, 71, 81, 153 Carroll, Lewis Alice in Wonderland, 154 Davies, Alistair, 3 Carter, Angela, 6, 8, 9, 10, 22, 28–9, 90, 91, Davies, Andrew 112, 143, 144, 145, 170, 171, 172–6, Pride and Prejudice (TV Series), 187 177, 178, 182, 186, 188, 226–9, 232, Davis, Rob 233, 260, 261, 262, 276 The Motherless Oven, 70, 83, 84 ‘The Company of Wolves’, 230 de Bernières, Louis, 114 Nights at the Circus, 9, 22, 28, 91, 144, de Man, Paul, 94 169, 170, 172–3, 176, 261 Delany, Samuel R., 156 The Bloody Chamber, 6, 143, 144, 186, DeLillo, Don, 2, 138, 141, 169 226, 227, 228, 261 Cosmopolis, 2 The Passion of the New Eve, 91 Derrida, Jacques, 17, 94 The Sadeian Woman, 226, 227 Desani, G. V. Wise Children, 94 All About H. Hatterr, 261 Catholicism, 24, 83, 106 Dexter, Colin, 158 Catton, Eleanor Díaz, Junot, 170 The Luminaries, 119, 177 Dibdin, Michael Chabon, Michael, 170 Ratking, 157 Cheyette, Bryan, 3 Dickens, Charles, 155, 189, 273, 280–1, China 282–3, 288, 289, 290, 291, Economics, 4 292 Christopher, John, 152, 164 A Christmas Carol, 288, 291 When the Tripods Came, 152 A Tale of Two Cities, 288 Churchill, Caryl Bleak House, 280, 281, 283, 288 Serious Money, 259 Djebar, Assia, 244 301

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Donoghue, Emma Evaristo, Bernardine, 161, 167 Room, 159 Blonde Roots, 162 Donoghue, Emma Eyre, Richard Kissing the Witch The Ploughman’s Lunch (ﬁlm), 188, 259 Old Tales in New Skins, 228 Drabble, Margaret, 8, 20, 30, 114, 150 Faber, Michel The Radiant Way, 20 The Crimson Petal and the White, 194 Duffy, Carol Ann, 214 Under the Skin, 194 Duncan, Glen Falklands War, The, 18 A Day And A Night And A Day, 60 Farrell, J.G. Duncan, Hal, 152, 154 The Siege of Krishnapur, 125, 171 Vellum, 156 Fascism, 23 Duncker, Patricia, 228 Faulks, Sebastian, 114 Seven Tales of Sex and Feminism, 21, 25, 28, 81, 82, 143, 144, 161, Death, 228 164, 173, 175, 177, 226, 227, 229, Dunsany, Lord, 155 231, 259, 261 Dyer, Geoff, 260 Fenton, James, 201 Ferrante, Elena, 170 Eaglestone, Robert, 3, 47 Fitzgerald, Penelope, 11, 264 Easton Ellis, Bret, 138 Innocence, 264 Eco, Umberto Offshore, 264 The Name of the Rose, 172 The Beginning of Spring, 264 Edgar, David The Blue Flower, 264 Maydays, 259 The Bookshop, 264 Egan, Jennifer The Gate of Angels, 264 ‘Black Box’, 117 Flanagan, Richard, 169 A Visit from the Goon Squad, 117 The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 177 Eggers, Dave, 215 Flaubert, Gustav, 99, 150 Eisenstein, Sergei, 185 Forster, E.M., 257 Eliot, George, 98, 139 ‘The Machine Stops’, 160 Eliot,T.S., 119, 144, 163 Howards End, 49 Elison, Ralph, 215 Forsyth, Bill Emecheta, Buchi, 26 Local Hero (TV Series), 259 The Family, 27 Foucault, Michel, 17, 76, 93, 172, 175, Eng, Tan Twang, 170 176, 226 Enright, Anne, 170 Fowles, John, 17, 92, 109, 140, 186 Esposito, Roberto, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 140, 81 171, 186 Terms of the Political, 74, 75 France, 21, 44, 118, 124, Eugenides, Jeffrey, 170 258 Europe, 26, 48, 164, 175, 248, 257, 258, 259, Francis, Dick, 114 268, 284 Frears, Stephen European Colonialism, 162 Dirty Pretty Things, 253, 254 European Literature, 52, 203, 237, 261 My Beautiful Launderette, 188 European Nationalism, 30, 270, 276 Freud, Sigmund, 76, 219, 262 European Orientalism, 242 Fukuyama, Francis, 269, 274, 293 European Publishers, 113, 115, 118 Fuller, Claire European Romanticism, 264 Swimming Lessons, 117 European Union, 75, 251, 252, 256, 258, 267, 270, 277 Gaddis, William, 138 Holocaust, The, 39, 263, 267, 268 Gaiman, Neil Medieval Europe, 242 Sandman, 152 Refugee Crisis, 75, 270 Galloway, Janice, 7, 44, 260, 276 302

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Foreign Parts, 44 Roots, 181 The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, 44 Hall, Sarah, 10, 161, 167, 233 Garland, Alex ‘Mrs Fox’, 225, 227 The Beach, 268 Madame Zero, 225 Gee, Maggie, 98, 159, 161, 167 The Carhullan Army, 161, 222, 223, The Burning Book, 163 224, 225 The Flood, 163 Hall, Stuart, 24, 251 The Ice People, 98, 163, 165 Hamilton, Ian, 201 The White Family, 159 Haraway, Donna, 79, 80, 81 Germany, 118, 263, 265, 267 Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, When Ghandi, Indira, 26 Species Meet, 79, 80 Ghosh, Amitav, 26, 30, 61, 62 Staying with the Trouble, 79 The Shadow Lines, 26 Hardy, Thomas, 139 Gibson, William Harris, Wilson, 37 Neuromancer, 152, 154 Harrison, M. John, 152, 154, 155, 156 Gilroy, Paul, 24 Harvey, David, 4, 6 Glazer, Jonathan Head, Dominic, 3, 26 Sexy Beast, 268 Heidegger, Martin, 75 Globalization, 55, 114, 115, 117, 121, 251, Heinlein, Robert A. 252, 254, 255, 256, 265, 266, 268, Starship Troopers, 156 269, 274, 275, 276 Heise, Ursula, 3, 4 Golding, William, 71, 92, 109, 114, 124, Heller, Joseph, 109, 138 125 Heteroglossia, 79, 93 Lord of the Flies, 71 Heti, Sheila, 96 Rites of Passage, 125 Hildyard, Rupert, 3 Google, 5 Hill, Susan, 151, 158 Gordimer, Nadine, 119 The Simon Serrailler series, 158 Granta Magazine, 17, 18, 20, 22, 27, 30, 105, The Woman in Black, 158 106, 111, 112, 131, 202 Hirst, Damien Grass, Gunter, 24 The Physical Impossibility of Death in the The Tin Drum, 171 Mind of Someone Living, 40 Gray, Alisdair Historiographic Metafiction, 21 Lanark Hitchens, Christopher, 201 A Life in Four Books, 27, 152, 260 Hoban, Russell Great Britain, 19 Riddley Walker, 152 Black British History, 19, 24 Hodges, Mike Black British Writing, 38, 44 Get Carter (film), 268 British Indian Writing, 24, 25 Hogan, James P. British Novel, The, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, The Proteus Operation, 152 47, 57, 63, 114, 202, 204, 214, 236, Hollinghurst, Alan, 10, 188, 189, 190, 221, 262, 263, 273, 276, 277, 291, 232, 233 292 The Line of Beauty, 169, 188, 189, British Politics, 5 190, 221 British Postmodernism, 6 The Swimming-Pool Library, 221 Foreign Policy, 5 Hope Hodgson, William, 155 Greene, Graham, 112 Hornby, Nick, 33 Grenfell Fire, The, 5, 11 Fever Pitch, 33 Griffith, D.W., 185 High Fidelity, 33 Gyasi, Yaa, 170 Hosseini, Khaled A Thousand Splendid Suns, 119 Haas, Philip The Kite Runner, 119 Angels and Insects, 193 Hunter, Megan, 161, 165, 167 Haley, Alex Hurston, Zora Neale, 215 303

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Hutcheon, Linda, 21 Jordan, Hillary Huxley, Aldous When She Woke, 222 Brave New World, 161 Jordan, Neil The Company of Wolves, 186, 261 India, 6, 24, 25, 26, 91, 142, 237, 238, Joyce, James, 27, 163, 280, 283, 290 241, 267 ‘The Dead’, 284, 285, 286, 289 Society, 25 Dubliners, 285 Iraq Ulysses, 53, 289 Iraq War, 2, 5, 60, 266, 269, 275 Kafka, Franz Isherwood, Christopher, 162 ‘A Report for an Academy’, 79 Ishiguro, Kazuo, 6, 8, 17, 18, 22, 70, 80, 98, Kant, Immanuel, 89 124, 139, 161, 167, 186, 259 Kavenna, Joanna, 161, 167 A Pale View of Hills, 22 The Birth of Love, 162, 163 An Artist of the Floating World, 22, 264 Kay, Jackie Never Let Me Go, 70, 80, 81, 98, 161, Trumpet, 169, 221 194 Kelman, James, 7, 8, 27, 35, 101, 146, 260, The Remains of the Day, 22, 23, 169, 176, 265, 276 190, 191, 192, 263 A Disaffection, 27 When We Were Orphans, 264 Greyhound for Breakfast, 265 Islam, 25, 236, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243, 244, How Late It Was, How Late, 7, 35, 265 245, 246, 247 Kieron Smith, boy, 278, 279, 280 Italy, 39, 258, 264 My Beautiful Laundrette, 36 Ivory, James Not Not While the Giro, 265 A Room with a View (film), 187, 189 The Burn, 265 Howards End (film), 187 The Busconductor Hines, 27 Maurice (film), 187 Translated Accounts, 265, 279 The Bostonians (film), 189 You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free, 7, 265 Jacobson, Howard, 119, 125 Kennedy, A.L., 7, 43, 260 The Finkler Question, 125 Everything You Need, 44 Jacques, Juliet, 232 Looking for the Possible Dance, 44 James, Clive, 201 So I Am Glad, 43 James, Henry, 108, 188 Kermode, Frank, 50 The Golden Bowl, 189 Kingsnorth, Paul The Portrait of a Lady, 189 The Wake, 62, 63 The Spoils of Poynton, 189 Knausgaard, Karl Ove, 96, 170 The Wings of the Dove, 189 Krauss, Chris, 96 James, M. R., 155 Kristeva, Julia, 270 James, Marlon, 119 Kundera, Milan, 6 A Brief History of Seven Killings, 177 Kunzru, Hari, 96 James, P.D. The Impressionist, 169, 269 Children of Men, 152, 158, 164, 224 Transmission, 214, 270 Jameson, Fredric, 4, 89, 97, 172, 174, Kureishi, Hanif, 24, 26, 39, 186, 188 186, 213 Intimacy, 38 Japan, 22, 106, 111, 258, My Beautiful Laundrette, 26, 221, 253, 261 265 Jefferies, Richard My Son the Fanatic, 37, 265 After London Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, 26 or, Wild England, 164 The Black Album, 37, 38, 40 Johnson, B.S., 150 The Buddha of Suburbia, 26, 36, 40, 265 Jones, Gwyneth, 152, 153 Kurosawa, Akira Escape Plans, 153 Rashomon, 196 304

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Lamming, George, 257 MacLeod, Ken, 152 Lanchester, John, 52 Magical Realism, 24, 28, 60, 138, 142, 145, Larkin, Philip, 109 172, 261 Lawrence, D.H., 29, 144 Mailer, Norman, 10, 201, 202 le Carré, John, 156 Major, John, 32 A Murder of Quality, 157 Malabou, Catherine A Perfect Spy, 157, 265 Ontology of the Accident, 78 Smiley’s People, 157, 265 Malkani, Guatam The Constant Gardener, 265 Londonstani, 7, 121, 270 The End of the Line, 157 Mantel, Hilary, 196 The Honourable Schoolboy, 265 Bring Up the Bodies, 177, 195 The Mission Song, 265 Wolf Hall, 169 The Night Manager, 265 Márquez, Gabriel García, 24, 171, 172, 261 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 157 One Hundred Years of Solitude, 171 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 157, 265 Martel, Yann Le Clezio, J.M.G., 170 Life of Pi, 119, 125 Le Guin, Ursula, 215 Marx, Karl, 4 Lean, David May, Theresa, 252, 276, 278, 288, 292 A Passage to India (film), 187 McAuley, Paul, 152 Leavis, F. R, 111 McBride, Eimear, 170 Lee, Laurie, 112 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, 100, Leigh, Mike 128, 147 Meantime (film), 259 McCarthy, Cormac Topsy Turvy (film), 187 The Road, 160, 164 Lessing, Doris, 10, 91, 94, 109, 124, 164 McCarthy, Tom, 7, 54, 70, 76, 79, 146, 150 Alfred and Emily, 95 C, 146 The Cleft, 169, 222 Remainder, 7, 70, 76, 77, 78, 99, 100, The Golden Notebook, 171 150 Lethem, Jonathan, 170 Satin Island, 54, 56, 100 Levy, Andrea McDermid, Val, 157 Small Island, 270 McEwan, Ian, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, The Long Song, 169 47, 63, 97, 98, 99, 112, 139, 146, 186, Levy, Deborah 188, 196, 201–5, 207, 208, 209, 210, Diary of a Steak, 70, 79, 80 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 259, Hot Milk, 70, 81, 83 285, 286, 292 LGBTQ, 37 ‘Homemade’, 208 History, 189, 219, 220 Atonement, 146, 169, 187, 196, 197, LGBTQ Writing, 28, 221, 230, 211, 276 232, 233 Saturday, 97, 98, 211, 212, 269 Queer Theory, 221, 222 Solar, 211 Lively, Penelope The Cement Garden, 6 Moon Tiger, 22 The Child in Time, 19 Lodge, David, 97 The Children’s Act, 281–4, 285, 286, 287, Louis, Edouard, 96 288, 289 Lovecraft, H. P., 154 The Comfort of Strangers, 6, 19 Luckhurst, Roger, 58 Meeks, James Lukács, Georg, 170 We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, 58, Lyotard, Jean-François, 93, 137, 59, 60 146, 171 Melville, Herman Moby Dick, 137, 162 Machen, Arthur, 155 Mernissi, Fatima, 244 Mackenzie, John Miéville, China, 152, 154, 155, 167 The Long Good Friday (film), 259, 268 Bas Lag Trilogy, 156 305

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Iron Council, 155 The Night Mayor, 153 Perdido Street Station, 155 Nigeria, 26 The City and the City, 159 Noon, Jeff The Scar, 155 A Man of Shadows, 159 This Census Taker, 155 Nymphomation, 154 Miller Gearhart, Sally Pollen, 154 The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Vurt, 154 Women, 161 Northern Ireland, 252, 258, 265 Miller, Alice The Drama of the Gifted Child, 75 O’Neill, Joseph Miller, Henry, 107 Netherland, 99, 150 Milton, John Obama, Barack, 278 Paradise Lost, 71 Ondaatje, Michael, 42 Mina, Denise, 157 Anil’s Ghost, 269 Miners’ strike, The, 4 The English Patient, 41, 269 Mitchell, David, 7, 53, 128, 146, 161, 214 Orwell, George, 162 Cloud Atlas, 53, 128, 146, 162, 163, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 153, 161, 163 169, 278 Osborne, John, 256 Ghostwritten, 53, 54, 55, 56 Oyeyemi, Helen The Bone Clocks, 214 The Opposite House, 270 Mo, Timothy, 26, 92 Modiano, Patrick, 170 Pakistan, 24, 25, 26, 115, 142, 238, Moorcock, Michael, 156 262 Moretti, Franco, 93 Parker, Harry Morgan, Richard K. Anatomy of A Soldier, 269 Altered Carbon, 153 Peace, David, 63, 151 Broken Angels, 153 GB84, 169 Woken Furies, 153 The Red Riding Quartet, 159 Morrison, Blake Perry, Grayson, 71 As If, 159 Philips, Caryl, 8, 9, 38, 92, 267 Morrison, Toni, 138, 169, 215 Cambridge, 39 Mosley, Nicholas Crossing the River, 39 Hopeful Monsters, 43 The Nature of Blood, 38, 39, 169 Muir, William Piercy, Marge, 164 Life of Mohammad, 244 Pinter, Harold, 157, 186 Muñoz, José Esteban, 221, 224, 225 Poirier, Richard Murdoch, Iris, 17, 97, 98 A World Elsewhere, 203 The Book and The Brotherhood, 97 Postcolonialism, 6, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 126, The Good Apprentice, 97 142, 143, 237, 240, 257, 259, 261, The Message to the Planet, 97 262, 276 Myerson, Julie, 161, 167 Pound, Ezra, 144 Then, 164 Powell, Enoch, 23, 257 Rivers of Blood speech, 23 Nabokov, Vladimir, 138, 141, 213, 215, 264 Powers, Richard, 138 Naipaul, V. S., 8, 26, 94, 109, 257, 261 Prawer Jhabvala, Ruth, 126, 186 A Way in the World, 94 Heat and Dust, 126 The Enigma of Arrival, 26 Pritchett, V. S., 112 Namjoshi, Suniti, 232 Procter, James, 247, 267 Nancy, Jean-Luc, 73 Pynchon, Thomas, 17, 138, 141, 169, Neoliberalism, 4, 5 204, 214 New Labour, 32, 38, 266 Newman, Kim Raine, Craig, 201 Anno Dracula, 152 Rankin, Ian, 151, 156, 157, 260 306

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Knots and Crosses, 157 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1 Reagan, Ronald, 4, 5, 6, 11, 145, 152, 158, Saunders, George 263, 287 Lincoln in the Bardo, 128, 177 Reed, Ishmael, 138 Scandinavia, 258 Rendel, Emma Denmark, 258 The Vicar Woman, 70, 71, 83, 84 Schell, Jonathan Rendell, Ruth, 158 The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to Reproductive Rights, 161, 222, America, 263 233 Schiller, Friedrich, 89 Rhys, Jean, 109 Scotland, 7, 27, 32, 33, 35, 44, 119, 146, 153, Rich, Adrienne, 229 157, 252, 260, 265, 268, 287 Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 140 Scottish Crime, 157 Roberts, Adam Scottish Writing, 43 Jack Glass, 160 Scott, Paul The Real-Town Murders, 160 Staying On, 126 Robson, Justina, 152, 153, 154, 155 Sebald, W.G., 39, 169, 267 Silver Screen, 153 A Natural History of Destruction, 267 Rogers, Janes Austerlitz, 95, 96, 162, 267 The Testament of Jessie Lamb, 164 The Emigrants, 39, 95, 96, 267 Romanek, Mark The Rings of Saturn, 39, 267 Never Let Me Go (ﬁlm), 187 Vertigo, 267 Rorty, Richard, 93 Self, Will, 5, 127, 146, 161, 167 Roth, Philip, 10, 17, 109, 138, 201, 202, 203, Cock and Bull, 147 204, 206, 207, 208, 210, 214, 215, 216 The Book of Dave, 147, 164 My Life as a Man, 206 Selvon, Samuel, 37, 257 Portnoy’s Complaint, 211 The Lonely Londoners, 267 The Counterlife, 204, 213 Shamsie, Kamila, 170 Rowling, J.K. Shelley, Mary Harry Potter, 84 The Last Man, 164 Rudet, Jaqueline, 232 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 244 Rushdie, Salman, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19, 20, Sinﬁeld, Alan, 3, 225 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 36, 37, 60, 91, 92, Smith, Ali, 7, 10, 101, 146, 231, 260, 280, 93, 94, 97, 98, 105, 106, 125, 126, 289, 292 142, 143, 172, 173, 186, 201, 202, Artful, 101 214, 236, 247, 259, 261, 262, 276 Autumn, 7, 287, 288, 289, 290, Grimus, 125 291 Imaginary Homelands, 6, 262 Girl Meets Boy, 231, 291 Joseph Anton, 236–48 How to Be Both, 101, 169, 232, 290 Midnight’s Children, 6, 22, 24, 25, 91, 94, The Accidental, 7, 146, 290 105, 142, 169, 172, 237, 239, 261 Winter, 7, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292 Shame, 22, 25, 91, 237, 262 Smith, Zadie, 7, 11, 36, 37, 49–52, 63, 98, The Satanic Verses, 25, 36, 37, 92, 93, 142, 114, 139, 146, 150, 177, 201, 214, 143, 236–48, 262 266, 278 Russ, Joanna, 156, 164 NW, 7, 99, 195, 215, 254, 255, 267, The Female Man, 156 270, 292 Rwandan Genocide, The, 265, 266 On Beauty, 49–52, 57, 59, 99, 215 Swing Time, 171, 177, 178, 179, 180, Saatchi, Charles, 40 181, 182 Safran Foer, Jonathan, 215 The Book of Other People, 215 Sahota, Sunjeev White Teeth, 7, 36, 37, 51, 98, 201, 254, The Year of the Runaways, 270 266, 276, 277 Said, Edward, 92, 94, 139, 270 South Africa Orientalism, 256 Apartheid, 266 307

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Spivak, Gayatri, 92 African Americans, 178 Stanley Robinson, Kim Economics, 4, 5, 39, 258 Forty Signs of Rain, 165 Foreign Policy, 5, 58, 60, 256, 263, 265, New York 2140, 165 266, 269, 275 Sterne, Lawrence Immigration, 265 Tristram Shandy, 187 Nationalism, 276 Stoppard, Tom Postmodernism, 138, 257 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1 US Nationalism, 270 Stross, Charles, 153 US Publishing, 63, 109, 113, 115, 126 Sturridge, Charles US Writing, 202, 204, 214, 215, 269 Where Angels Fear to Tread (film), 187 Swainston, Steph, 152, 154, 155, 156 VanderMeer, Jeff, 154 The Year of Our War, 156 Vidor, King, 185 Swift, Graham, 8, 9, 17, 22, 30, 92, 259 Volcker, Paul, 4 Out of This World, 22 Vonnegut, Kurt, 138 Shuttlecock, 22 Waterland, 22, 92, 94 Wain, John, 256 Syjuco, Miguel, 170 Wales, 32 Wallace, David Foster, 138, 215 Tan, Amy, 170 Walsh, Joanna Tanner, Tony Grow a Pair City of Words, 202 9 ½ Fairytales about Sex, 231 Tartt, Donna, 119 Seed, 232 Tew, Philip, 23 Wapping Strike, The, 4 Thatcher, Margaret, 4, 5, 6, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, Wark, McKenzie, 61 32, 141, 263, 274, 287, 288 Warner, Alan, 260 Thatcherism, 4, 6, 8, 20, 22, 32, 39, 141, Morvern Callar, 34, 35, 268 187, 190, 253, 256, 258, 259, 262, These Demented Lands, 35 263, 264, 266, 274, 276 Warom, Ren Thirlwell, Adam, 214, 215 Escapology, 154 Miss Herbert, 215 Waters, Sarah, 63, 176, 194, 230 Thomas More Affinity, 176 Utopia, 292 Fingersmith, 177 Thompson, Hunter S., 138 The Night Watch, 177, 230 Thomson, Rupert, 161, 167 Tipping the Velvet, 169, 177 Divided Kingdom, 161 Waterstone’s, 113, 122, 123, 126 Tóibín, Colm, 120, 169 Waugh, Evelyn Tolkein, J.R.R. Brideshead Revisited, 188 Lord of the Rings, 187 Waugh, Patricia, 17 Tremain, Rose Welsh, Irvine, 7, 187, 260, 276 Restoration, 176 Filth, 34 Truffaut, François Trainspotting, 7, 33, 187 La nuit américaine, 186 Wharton, Edith, 188 Trump, Donald, 11, 75, 145, 270, 273, 275, Whitehead, Colson, 169 276, 277, 287, 291 Williams, Raymond, 89 Turing, Alan, 153 Winterbottom, Michael A Cock and Bull Story (film), 187 Updike, John, 10, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, Winterson, Jeanette, 8, 10, 29, 42, 43, 44, 92, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 213, 215, 216 114, 161, 167, 172, 173, 229, 230, In the Beauty of the Lilies, 208 232, 265 The Rabbit Novels, 204, 211 Gut Symmetries, 42 United States, The, 38, 58, 178, 261, 263, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, 28, 42, 275, 276, 278 229, 265 308

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Sexing the Cherry, 28, 29, 42, 229, 230 Mrs Dalloway, 52, 185 The Passion, 28, 91, 92, 169, 230 World War I, 29, 39, 41, The PowerBook, 69 268 The Stone Gods, 163 World War II, 3, 4, 21, 39, 41, 111, 157, 257, Written on the Body, 42, 43 266, 268, 276 Wittig, Monique Wright, Joe Les Guérilleres, 161 Atonement (ﬁlm), 187 Woolf, Virginia, 105, 108, 144, 163, 175, Wyndham, John, 164 197, 257 ‘The Cinema’, 185 Xiopenh, Deng, 4

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