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Acheson, James, and Sarah C. E. Ross, eds. The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9781403974303.

Bradford, Richard. The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 9781405113861.

Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction Since 1970. London, UK: Palgrave, 2004. ISBN: 9781403911209.

English, James F. The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780674018846.

———, ed. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN: 9781405120012.

Finney, Brian. English Fiction Since 1984: Narrating a Nation. London, UK: Palgrave, 2006. ISBN: 9780230008557.

Lane, Richard J., Rod Mengham, and Philip Tew, eds. Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2003. ISBN: 9780745628677.

Todd, Richard. Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today. London, UK: Bloomsbury, 1996. ISBN: 9780747528227.