Introduction: contexts and concepts for reading the novel in English 1950-2000
Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954)
William Golding's Lord of the flies (1954)
Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart (1958)
Muriel Spark's The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians (1980)
Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale (1985)
Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day (1989)
Patrick McCabe's The butcher boy (1992)
Graham Swift's Last orders (1996).
Reading the novel in English, 1950-2000 by Brian W. Shaffer. ISBN 9781405101141. Published by Blackwell Pub. in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.