Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Richard Bradford, is Research Professor at Ulster University and Director of the Ulster Literary Biography Research Centre. He has published more than thirty books, including eight well-reviewed biographies, most recently on Hemingway and Orwell. He is founder and general editor of the new Wiley-Blackwell biography series The Life of the Author.

• Volume OnePrefaceRichard BradfordPart One1. Before Now: An Essay on Pre-Contemporary Fiction and PoetryRichard Bradford2. British Literature Today: 21st century British literatureStephen Butler3. Introduction to Contemporary Irish WritingJames Ward4. Overview of Modern/Contemporary DramaKevin De OrnellasPart Two5. Aidan Higgins: Disguised AutobiographiesNeil Murphy6. Brian FrielGraham Price7. Alan BennettJoseph H. O’Mealy8. Edward BondPeter Billingham9. Seamus HeaneyAdam Hanna10. Michael MoorcockMark Williams11. Angela CarterAnja Muller-Wood12. Christina ReidMichal Lachman13. Bernard MacLaverty Richard Russell13a. Eavan Boland's Poetry: The Inoperative CommunityPilar Villar-Argáiz14. I am, therefore I think: being and thinking inside the world of John Banville’s fictionAlisa Hemphill15. Julian Barnes (born 1946)Vanessa Guignery16. Where They Are: Language and Place in James Kelman’s FictionJohnny Rodger17. Howard Barker (and the Art of Theatre)Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Vanasay Khamphommala18. Marina LewyckaHeather Fielding19. Dermot Healy (1947-2014)Keith Hopper20. David EdgarSean Carney21. Ian McEwanBrian Diemert22. Tom Paulin - Writer and TranslatorStephanie Schwerter23. Graham SwiftDaniel Lea24. Martin AmisAndrew James25. Peter AckroydJean-Michel Ganteau26. Patrick McGrathSue Zlosnik27. Medbh McguckianBarbola Farago28. Paul MuldoonAlex Alonso29. William Boyd: ‘Fiction… so real you forget it is fiction’Christine Berberich30. ‘Some of these things are true, and some of them lies. But they are all good stories’: the Historical Fiction of Hilary Mantel Laura J Burkinshaw31. Linton Kwesi JohnsonEmily Taylor Merriman32. Hanif KureishiLaurenz Volkmann33. Colm TóibínKathleen Costello-Sullivan34. Janice GallowayDorothy Mcmillan35. Martin CrimpAleks Sierz 36. Adam ThorpeDominic Head37. Benjamin ZephaniahGraham MacPhee38. Jeanette WintersonSusana Onega39. Jonathan CoeLaurent Mellet40. From the Living Dead of Crouch End to the Brexiteers of Wolverhampton: Surprising Humanity in the Corpus of Will SelfKevin De OrnellasVolume TwoPrefaceRichard BradfordPart Two41. Jackie KayNerys Williams42. Kathleen JamieHeather Yeung43. Ali SmithMonica Germanà44. A.L. KennedyMonika Szuba45. Monica AliMichael Perfect46. Sarah WatersNatasha Alden47. David GreigClare Wallace48. David MitchellPatrick O’Donnell49. Emma DonoghueAbigail Palko50. Hari KunzruPeter Childs51. Mark O’RoweDavid Clare52. Conor McPhersonEamonn Jordan53. China MiévilleEric Sandberg54. Zadie SmithChris HolmesPart Three55. Experiment and Tradition in Contemporary PoetryDavid Wheatley56. Reproducing the Nation: Nationed Social Imaginaries in Contemporary Scottish LiteratureArianna Introna57. Welsh Writing in English (c. 1990 - present)D.J. Howells58. Eccentrics, Gentlemen, Officers And Spies: Englishness And Identity In The Contemporary British NovelElsa Cavalié59. LGBT and FictionJoseph Ronan60. British Science Fiction 1990-2017: Technology Themed Fiction in the Light of the New Millennium and Speculative ‘Singularity’Dr Grace Halden61. British Influences on the Graphic Novel: a Discussion of the ‘Invasion’ Model of InterpretationHugo Frey62. The Girl-Hero for the New Millennia: Alice’s Great-great-granddaughters in Post-Gender Fantasy WorldsKatharine Kittredge63. Contemporary British Gothic: the C21st ghost story.Katherine Byrne64. Post-Troubles Northern Irish FictionDr. George Legg65. Globalisation and its Discontents in Twenty-First Century British and Irish Crime FictionStephen Butler66. British Psychogeographical FictionEva M. Pérez-Rodríguez67. Representing gender: The Resurgence of Androgyny in Contemporary British LiteratureJustine Goneaud68. Approaches to Modern, Contemporary DramaKevin De Ornellas69. Verbatim TheatreCyrielle Garson70. ‘It had stopped being history and turned into experience’: An Approach to the Historical Novel.Rebecca Devine71. Global Literature and the Death of the Novel: Rushdie in Retro-PersepectiveMadelena Gonzalez72. Strange Metaphors: Contemporary Black Writing in BritainJenni Ramone73. Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social MediaMillicent Weber

“With this astounding project and a joint effort of editors and scholars, the companion is of great help for students and scholars in need of an introduction to certain authors and a comprehensive view of the contemporary British and Irish literature.” - Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4 (2):144-49