David Lodge

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Changing Places

    When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobo...

  • How Far Can You Go?

    Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and their peers were bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the way from the 1950s to the '70s. On the one hand there was the traditional Catholic Church, on the other the siren call of t...

  • Souls and Bodies

    The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else...

    In this bracing satire, a group of university students make their way through the fifties and into th...

  • The British Museum Is Falling Down

    The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thes...

  • Ginger, You're Barmy

    When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit ...

  • Small World

    Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance...

  • Out of the Shelter

    The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy's early youth. But everything changes when Timothy's glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend the summer at Heidelberg. K...

  • Nice Work

    Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, "Nice Work" is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings. When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle's engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn P...

  • Paradise News

    Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling h...



  • The Picturegoers

    The Palladium, Brickley, is the haunting setting for this novel. Here is a seedy Saturday night venue which attracts people searching for something new in their lives. Mark, Clare and Father Kipling are just three of the characters featured....

  • The Art of Fiction

    The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form.

    The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headi...

  • A David Lodge Trilogy

    This omnibus lines up David Lodge's trio of brilliantly comic novels that revolve around the University of Rummidge and the lives of its role-swapping academics. When Philip Swallow, lecturer in English at Rummidge, changes places with flamboyant Mor...

  • Therapy

    A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupu...

  • The Practice of Writing

    In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls...

  • Home Truths

    Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the `A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screen writer, drops i...

  • Thinks . . .

    David Lodge's novels have earned comparisons to those of John Updike and Philip Roth and established him as "a cult figure on both sides of the Atlantic" (The New York Times). Thinks . . . , his witty new novel about secret infidelities and the natur...

  • Author, Author

    "A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James." -- The Boston Globe

    Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambition, creativity, and rivalry as revealed in the public career and private life of this most singular ...

  • The Year of Henry James

    In 2004, three major novels featuring Henry James as a character were published - one of them went on to win the Booker Prize. It was not David Lodge's "Author Author". In this fascinating new book, a kind of postscript to his novel, Lodge traces the...

  • Deaf Sentence

    The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon. Deaf Sentence tells the story of Desmond Bates, a recently retired linguisti...



  • The Campus Trilogy

    'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' Time Out The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy , radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar te...

  • A Man of Parts

    Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park hours in 1944, the ailing H.G. Wells looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. He recalls his unpromising start, and early struggles to acquire an education and make a living as a te...

  • Writing Game

  • The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories

    The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists and critics

    A nameless man, who has fallen out of love with life, refuses to get out of bed, with unexpected consequences. A sociologist recalls how he learned his first ...

  • Good Housekeeping Modern Voices

  • Secret Thoughts

  • Thinks.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Lodge has published 26 books.

David Lodge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Thinks., was published in September 2021.

The first book by David Lodge, Changing Places, was published in November 1979.

No. David Lodge does not write books in series.
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