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That John Fowles is a nature writer as well as a novel writer is evident in various ways from the essays in this volume. Each one, in its way, explores an aspec

"Damn good" fiction is dramatic fiction, Frey insists, whether it is by Hemingway or Grisham, Le Carre or Ludlum, Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences,

Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman, accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where an eccentric millionaire manipulates him with hallucinations, rid

The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction.

A contemporary Englishman's attempt to see himself in the mirrors of his past and his present.