Jason Cowley, a former Booker Prize judge, reckons that this is the best year yet for British fiction since the prize began in this piece from today's Observer.
The Booker longlist is announced on Wednesday! Have got lots of catch-up reading to do.
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"To me, as a reader, everything seemed too neat and orderly in the garden of English fiction"
You're going to take issue with me again, but you know, "neat and orderly" does remind me of British fiction. I mean P. G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur C. Doyle (not to mention practically everyone else) wrote neat and orderly fiction. It's not like any one of them had a wild-eyed, filthy, bloody-knife-carrying villian. Paddington may have been from "Darkest Africa" but if he was anything, he was clean. :) you're going to hit me now I think. :)
I will hit nobody, but will go have a nice cup of tea and maintain a stiff upper lip while drinking it.
Do agree with his writer when he talks about the British novel pre-9/11 too often looking backwards in time instead of dealing with present issues ... Every society needs a literature which reflects its present and which thows up the important issues of the day for discussion ...
But please read some of the younger british writers like Hari Kunzru and Toby Litt if you want vivid energetic writing that takes risks ...
Something got censored and I didn't have a chance to read it ? darn. :P
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