David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, Deaf Sentence. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James.
"""The most brilliant and also the funniest novel that he has written"" London Review of Books ""Ingenious and proliferate plotting...a new comic debacle over every page"" The Times ""Academic infightings, couplings, touching, funny and frightful set pieces, dark humour, sharp wit and plain farce - here is everything one expects from this author but thricefold and three times as entertaining as anything he has written before"" Sunday Telegraph ""A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes"" Observer"