Lord Lytton is believed to have cleared L80,000 by his novels. It is a fact that Mr. Colburn's readers reported so unfavorably of "Pelham" that the manuscript was on the point of being returned to ...
she is one of the most thrillingly unique mid-century English novelists. But somehow, she cuts a lonely figure – not part of any particular literary scene, her works criminally under-recognised ...
Amis was by then already established as the enfant terrible of English literature. His semi-autobiographical first novel The Rachel Papers had propelled him onto the literary scene in 1973.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in ITV's Jeeves and Wooster series in the 1990s PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old ...