Granta 3: The End of the English Novel

Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning – quite possibly an extremely important beginning – of British fiction.

‘These are folk-historians, translators of myth and legend, anthropologists. They record a point of change, invasion, decomposition...expanding and challenging the frontiers of a “provincial” or “traditional” English novel.’ Hermione Lee, the Times Literary Supplement

‘A major contribution to the debate about contemporary fiction, confirming that it is no longer accurate to characterise the British novel as a poor, parochial second cousin to its more innovative and dynamic American counterpart.’ Time Out