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RECOMMENDED MODERN FICTION

A personal selection...to be expanded!

Ackroyd, Peter: Hawksmoor (H Hamilton 1985); House of Doctor Dee (H Hamilton 1993)

Hawksmoor made Ackroyd's name as a novelist. He has since written a number of other occult historical mysteries. Postmodernist in style, his novels are characterised by temporal shifts between past and present realities, and reflect a profoundly anti-modern pessimism, challenging the Enlightenment belief in progress. Rik - 22 May 2000

PETER ACKROYD, POSTMODERNIST PLAY AND CHATTERTON

Bates, Brian: Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (Beaver Books 1986)

Clavell, James: Shogun: A Novel of Japan (Hodder 1975)

Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness (1902)
Classic early-modernist novel. Strangely oblique, it has a druggy, dreamlike quality.

Ellroy, James: American Tabloid (Random House 1995)

Tolstoy, Nikolai: Coming of the King (Corgi 1989)

19 October 2000