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David Lodge's novels include Changing Places (Hawthornden Prize), How Far Can You Go? (Whitbread Book of the Year), Small World ( Booker shortlisted), Nice Work (Sunday Express Book of the Year) and A Man of Parts. He has also written books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction. His works have been translated into 25 languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded a CBE and is also a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Lodge 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, re-veals 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
