Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Four Voices for the New Millennium
6. 1. Ian McEwan: Lies and Deceptions 17
7. 2. David Mitchell: Global Novelist of the Twenty-First Century 27
8. 3. Hilary Mantel: Raising the Dead, Speaking the Truth 37
9. 4. Zadie Smith: The Geographies of Marriage 48
10. Part II. Realism and Beyond
11. 5. Maggie O’Farrell: Discoveries at the Edge 61
12. 6. Sarah Hall: A New Kind of Storytelling 70
13. 7. A. L. Kennedy: Giving and Receiving 79
14. 8. Alan Warner: Timeless Realities 88
15. Part III. Postmodernism, Globalisation and Beyond
16. 9. Ali Smith: Strangers and Intrusions 99
17. 10. Kazuo Ishiguro: Alternate Histories 109
18. 11. Kate Atkinson: Plotting to Be Read 119
19. 12. Salman Rushdie: Archival Modernism 129
20. Part IV Realism, Postmodernism and Beyond: Historical Fiction
21. 13. Adam Foulds: Fictions of Past and Present 143
22. 14. Sarah Waters: Representing Marginal Groups and Individuals 153
23. 15. James Robertson: In the Margins of History 163
24. Part V. Postcolonialism and Beyond
25. 16. Mohsin Hamid: The Transnational Novel of Globalisation 177
26. 17. Andrea Levy: The SS Empire Windrush and After 188
27. 18. Aminatta Forna: Truth, Trauma, Memory 199
28. Notes on Contributors 209
29. Index 213