Novelist, critic, lecturer, reviewer, man-about-conferences, David Lodge, as both analyst and practitioner, is one of our foremost experts in the forms of fiction. David Lodge\'s humour can be a devastating weapon, but it is continually engaging because as often as not the sniper\'s sights are trained on the author himself, and on the curiously mobile, cosmopolitan yet specialist world he inhabits.The essays and reviews collected in this volume are selected from the occasional writings over a span of twenty years, and are all prompted by an impulse - or an invitation - to \"write on\" some specific topic: a book, a film, an anniversary, a trip abroad. The pieces collected here are designed for a wide audience, and most focus, in more or less direct ways, on Lodge\'s own work as a novelist. Hardback with jacket. Condition: Very Good. Inside pages unmarked. Jacket slightly faded, small price crossed out in ink on flap.