What makes a novel a novel? How does a novel create a world different from that of drama or poetry? What kinds of truth can be told uniquely by the novel? And what role can the literary critic play in the egalitarian age of the Internet? The attempt to capture the multifariousness of experience through character, narrative and style is at the heart of the novelist s art, and it is evaluated and celebrated in the thirteen specially commissioned essays collected here. The Good of the Novel brings together some of today s most perceptive critics, several of them novelists themselves, and puts...
What makes a novel a novel? How does a novel create a world different from that of drama or poetry? What kinds of truth can be told uniquely by the no...
The Quaker is watching you.... In the chilling new crime novel from award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the streets of Glasgow and DI McCormack follows a trail of secrets to uncover the truth.... . Winner of the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year
The Quaker is watching you.... In the chilling new crime novel from award-winning author Liam McIlvanney, a serial killer stalks the streets of Glasgo...
