TY - BOOK AU - JAMES ACHESON TI - CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVEL SINCE 2000 SN - 9781474403733 U1 - O-,3:g PY - 2017/// CY - EDINBURGH PB - EDINBURGH University Press KW - English Novel-Criticism N2 - The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is in five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms 'realist', 'postmodernist', 'historical' and 'postcolonialist' fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. ER -