Introduction, James Acheson; Part I: Four Voices for the New Millennium; 1. Ian McEwan: Lies and Deceptions, David Punter; 2. David Mitchell: Global Novelist of the Twenty-First Century, Brian Finney; 3. Hilary Mantel: Raising the Dead, Speaking the Truth, Lisa Fletcher; 4. Zadie Smith: The Geographies of Marriage, Gretchen Gerzina; Part II: Realism and Beyond; 5. Maggie O’Farrell: Discoveries at the Edge, Susan Strehle; 6. Sarah Hall: A New Kind of Story-Telling, Sue Vice; 7. A.L. Kennedy: Giving and Receiving, Alison Lumsden; 8. Alan Warner: Timeless Realities, Alan Riach; Part III: Postmodernism, Globalisation and Beyond; 9. Ali Smith: Strangers and Intrusions, Monica Germanà; 10. Kazuo Ishiguro: Alternate Histories, Daniel Bedggood; 11. Kate Atkinson: Plotting to Be Read, Glenda Norquay; 12. Salman Rushdie: Archival Modernism, Vijay Mishra; Part IV: Realism, Postmodernism and Beyond: Historical Fiction; 13. Adam Foulds: Fictions of Past and Present, Dominic Head; 14. Sarah Waters: Representing Marginal Groups and Individuals, Susana Onega; 15. James Robertson: In the Margins of History, Cairns Craig; Part V: Postcolonialism and Beyond; 16. Mohsin Hamid: The Transnational Novel of Globalisation, Janet Wilson; 17. Andrea Levy: The SS Empire Windrush and After, Sue Thomas; 18. Aminatta Forna: Truth, Trauma, Memory, Françoise Lionnet and Jennifer MacGregor.