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Novel Thoughts: Case Study (Saraband, 2021)
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Case Study provides novelists with a brilliant example of how the form of a novel can perfectly exploit its...
David Savill
Jan 9, 20243 min read


Novel Thoughts: The Island of Missing Trees (and a problem for contemporary novels).
In this week's blog, an extended essay in response to James Marriott's take on the contemporary novel. Times columnist James Marriot is...
David Savill
Dec 15, 20239 min read


Novel Thoughts: Brother of the More Famous Jack (Victor Gollanz, 1982)
Barbara Trapido’s 1982 debut is a dazzling bridge between the romantic dramas and comedies of Somerset Maugham, (or EM Forster), and...
David Savill
Apr 1, 20234 min read


Novel Thoughts - No-One is talking about this: Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury, 2021)
What do we mean when we say a novel feels poetic? In the creative writing classroom, students usually use the ‘p’ word when they detect...
David Savill
Oct 1, 20223 min read
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