Liar's Landscape Collected Writing from a Storyteller's Life

by Bradbury, Malcolm; Bradbury, Dominic

• ISBN13: 9780330435338
• ISBN10: 0330435337
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetimes work; some of it published and some of it not; fiction and non-fiction; short stories and novels; completed work, work in progress, work barely begun; plans, sketches, notes, titles. Given shape and coherence by his son, Dominic, that work has now become Liars Landscape, a book about books, about writing and writers, about being a writer and, of course, about being Malcolm Bradbury

Author Biography

Malcolm Bradbury was a well-known novelist, critic and academic, and set up the famous creative writing department of the University of East Anglia, whose students have included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. Bradbury was the author of seven novels, including To the Hermitage, and wrote several works of non-fiction, humour and satire. He was an active journalist and a leading television writer, responsible for the adaptations of Porterhouse Blue, Cold Comfort Farm and episodes of Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC, and Dalziel and Pascoe. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 and died the same year. Dominic Bradbury is a writer and journalist. He has written a number of books on architecture and design and contributes to many magazines and newspapers, including the Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. He lives in Norfolk.

Table of Contents

Macclesfield, 1940	p. 1
Royal Train	p. 9
Dracula Country	p. 17
Sons and Mothers	p. 21
A Week or so in Rome	p. 27
In Praise of Grammar Schools	p. 47
Dearing Up the Campus	p. 53
Under the Dome	p. 39
Time Called While You Were Out	p. 63
Reading Parties	p. 79
The Waiting Game	p. 83
The Age of Anxiety: the 1950s	p. 101
The Days of the History Men	p. 107
Convergence: A Story	p. 111
Loving Norfolk	p. 123
The Recent Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	p. 129
Do We Have Great Novels Any More?	p. 137
Welcome Back to the History Man	p. 143
The Wissenschaft File	p. 149
Furling the Flag	p. 163
She's Got to Have It - The First Great Shopaholic	p. 321
A Modest Proposal	p. 327
John Blackwell	p. 331
Mortal Fictions	p. 333
Liar's Landscape	p. 341
Honoured	p. 407
Afterword	p. 413
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