To the Hermitage
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Allan Massie, Scotsman
‘The novel itself dispenses with the notion that writing ought to be spare and minimal; this is a BIG novel. It reads with the fluidity only such an accomplished narrator can control . . . A demanding and deeply rewarding novel’
John F. Deane, Irish Independent
‘To the Hermitage is Bradbury at his playfully erudite best’
Lucy Beresford, Daily Mail
‘This is a delightful book. Bradbury clearly enjoyed its creation. He is a fine satirist’
Tobias Hill, The Observer
‘His formidable depth of knowledge, held in check by the warm-hearted generosity of a born teacher, is never overwhelming’
Maria Fairweather, Mail on Sunday
MALCOLM BRADBURY was a well-known novelist, critic and academic. He set up the famous creative writing department of the University of East Anglia, whose students have included Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. He was the author of seven novels: Eating People is Wrong (1959); Stepping Westward (1965); The History Man (1975), which won the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize; Rates of Exchange (1983), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Cuts (1987); Doctor Criminale (1992); and To the Hermitage (2000). He wrote several works of non-fiction, humour and satire, including Who Do You Think You Are? (1976), All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go (1982) and Why Come to Slaka? (1991). He was an active journalist and a leading television writer, responsible for the adaptations of Porterhouse Blue, Cold Comfort Farm, and many TV plays and episodes of Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Kavanagh QC, and Dalziel and Pascoe. He was awarded a knighthood in 2000 and died the same year.
ALSO BY MALCOLM BRADBURY
Eating People is Wrong
(1959)
Stepping Westward
(1965)
The History Man
(1975)
Who Do You Think You Are?
(1976)
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
(1982)
Rates of Exchange
(1983)
Cuts
(1987)
Why Come to Slaka?
(1991)
Doctor Criminale
(1992)
First published 2000 by Picador
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