Angus Wilson
One of Britain's most distinguished novelists Sir Angus Wilson was born in 1913. Educated at Westminster and Merton College, Oxford he joined the British Museum as a cataloguer before being called for service in 1941. His literary career began with a collection of short-stories published in 1949. These were followed by other short-story collections, novels and plays. Co-founder with Malcolm Bradbury of the MA programme in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Wilson was appointed professor in 1967. Chair of many literary panels, including the Booker prize, and campaigner for homosexual equality he was knighted in 1980. He died in 1991.
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As If By Magic
Angus Wilson
Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god-daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with ...
Setting the World on Fire
Angus Wilson
At the end of the Second World War Piers and his younger brother Tom are growing up at Tothill House, the family home with its magnificent baroque hall by Vanbrugh ...
The Wild Garden
Angus Wilson
The Wild Garden is both an autobiographical essay on the creative process and a remarkable personal account of the circumstances surrounding the nervous crisis that impelled Angus Wilson to become ...
Such Darling Dodos
Angus Wilson
Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but ...
A Bit off the Map and Other Stories
Angus Wilson
Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young ...
The Old Men at the Zoo
Angus Wilson
Set in a near future (the novel was first published in 1961 and is set in the period 1970-73), this is Angus Wilson’s most allegorical novel, about a doomed ...
Late Call
Angus Wilson
A compassionate portrait of an elderly - and frustrated - woman adjusting to new town life and finding a new purpose in living.
Illness forces Sylvia Calvert to live with her son ...
The Wrong Set and Other Stories
Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson’s first volume of short stories,
The Wrong Set
was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim.
The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective ...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Angus Wilson
Gerald Middleton, Professor Emeritus of early medieval history, is a taciturn and methodical man, a creature of habit who likes to have his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his Swedish ...
Hemlock and After
Angus Wilson
On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After ‘a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards ...
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot
Angus Wilson
Meg Eliot is the wife of a successful barrister and with that comes a lovely home in Westminster, cocktail parties and a round of charity committees. She is the model ...
No Laughing Matter
Angus Wilson
A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson’s most autobiographical novel.
The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of ...
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