Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth fiction series

V. 1. Aaron's rod / D.H. Lawrence

The abbess of Crew / Muriel Spark

The acolyte / Thea Astley

The aerodrome / Rex Warner

After many a summer dies the swan / Aldous Huxley

Afternoon men / Anthony Powell

Agents and patients / Anthony Powell

All men are enemies / Richard Aldington

Angel pavement / J.B. Priestley

Anglo-Saxon attitudes / Angus Wilson

Animal Farm / George Orwell

The apes of God / Wyndham Lewis

The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz / Mordecai Richler

Arrow of God / Chinua Achebe

As for me and my house / Sinclair Ross

At Swim-Two-Birds / Flann O'Brien

The aunt's story / Patrick White

The Balkan Trilogy / Olivia Manning

The Ballad of Peckham Rye / Muriel Spark

Barefoot in the head / Brian W. Aldiss

Barometer rising / Hugh MacLennan

The barracks / John McGahern

Beachmasters / Thea Astley

The beautyful ones are not yet born / Ayi Kwei Armah

A bend in the river / V.S. Naipaul

The birds fall down / Rebecca West

The birthday king / Gabriel Fielding

Black mischief / Evelyn Waugh

The black prince / Iris Murdoch

Black robe / Brian Moore

The blue mountains of China / Ruby Wiebe

The boarding-house / William Trevor

Bogmail / Patrick McGinley

The bone people / Keri Hulme

Bonecrack / Dick Francis

Borderline / Janette Turner Hospital

Born in captivity / John Wain

A brighter sun / Samuel Selvon

Brighton Rock / Graham Greene

Bruno's dream / Iris Murdoch

Burger's daughter / Nadine Gordimer

Burmese days / George Orwell

Burning water / George Bowering

Caliban's filibuster / Paul West

Capricornia / Xavier Herbert

The captain with the whiskers / Benedict Kiely

Caught / Henry Green

A chain of voices / André Brink

Changing places / David Lodge

The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Thomas Keneally

Children of violence / Doris Lessing

The citadel / A.J. Cronin

Clear light of day / Anita Desai

A clockwork orange / Anthony Burgess

A coffin for Dimitrios / Eric Ambler

The collector / John Fowles

The comedians / Graham Greene

The comforters / Muriel Spark

Coming up for air / George Orwell

Company / Samuel Beckett

Concluding / Henry Green

Confederates / Thomas Keneally

The conservationist / Nadine Gordimer

Coonardoo / Katharine Susannah Prichard

The Country Girls Trilogy / Edna O'Brien

Crusoe's daughter / Jane Gardam

The crystal world / J.G. Ballard

The custom house / Francis King

A dance in the sun / Dan Jacobson

Daniel Martin / John Fowles

Darkness visible / William Golding

Dead man leading / V.S. Pritchett

The debut / Anita Brookner

The Deptford Trilogy / Robertson Davies

The diviners / Margaret Laurence

Doctor Copernicus / John Banville

Down from the hill / Alan Sillitoe

The dragon can't dance / Earl Lovelace

A dream journey / James Hanley

Dusty answer / Rosamond Lehmann

Earthly powers / Anthony Burgess

Eating people is wrong / Malcolm Bradbury

The ebony tower / John Fowles

The echoing grove / Rosamond Lehmann

The edible woman / Margaret Atwood

Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard

The end of the affair / Graham Greene

The end of the world news / Anthony Burgess

The equations of love / Ethel Wilson

Esmond in India / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Eva Trout / Elizabeth Bowen

Excellent women / Barbara Pym

The eye of the storm / Patrick White

Eyeless in Gaza / Aldous Huxley

A fairly honourable defeat / Iris Murdoch

Female friends / Fay Weldon.

V. 2. The financial expert / R.K. Narayan

Fire from Heaven / Mary Renault

Fire on the mountain / Anita Desai

The fire-dwellers / Margaret Laurence

Fireflies / Shiva Naipaul

The Fisher King / Anthony Powell

Flaubert's parrot / Julian Barnes

The fountain overflows / Rebecca West

The fox / D.H. Lawrence

Frankenstein unbound / Brian W. Aldiss

The French lieutenant's woman / John Fowles

Fruits of the earth / Fredrick Philip Grove

Full moon / P.G. Wodehouse

Funeral games / Mary Renault

G. / John Berger

The games were coming / Michael Anthony

Gaudy night / Dorothy L. Sayers

Gentlemen in England / A.N. Wilson

The ginger man / J.P. Donleavy

The girl green as elderflower / Randolph Stow

A girl in winter / Philip Larkin

Girl, 20 / Kingsley Amis

A glass of blessing / Barbara Pym

The go-between / L.P. Hartley

God on the rocks / Jane Gardam

The golden notebook / Doris Lessing

The good apprentice / Iris Murdoch

Good morning, midnight / Jean Rhys

The good soldier / Ford Madox Ford

The good terrorist / Doris Lessing

The Gormenghast Trilogy / Mervyn Peake

Gossip from the forest / Thomas Keneally

Grateful to life and death / R.K. Narayan

The great ponds / Elechi Amadi

The green man / Kingsley Amis

Guerrillas / V.S. Naipul

The Guiana Quartet / Wilson Harris

The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood

Harland's half acre / David Malouf

Harriet said / Beryl Bainbridge

The healers / Ayi Kwei Armah

Heat and dust / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Her privates, we / Frederic Manning

The history man / Malcolm Bradbury

The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien

The honorary consul / Graham Greene

The honourable schoolboy / John Le Carré

Hotel du Lac / Anita Brookner

A house for Mr. Biswas / V.S. Naipaul

House of all nations / Christina Stead

The householder / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The human age / Wyndham Lewis

I for one / Frank Sargeson

I like it here / Kingsley Amis

Ice / Anna Kavan

The ice age / Margaret Drabble

Illywhacker / Peter Carey

An imaginary life / David Malouf

In a free state / V.S. Naipaul

In the castle of my skin / George Lamming

In the time of Greenbloom / Gabriel Fielding

The inimitable Jeeves / P.G. Wodehouse

An insular possession / Timothy Mo

Intensive care / Janet Frame

The interpreters / Wole Soyinka

The ivory swing / Janette Turner Hospital

Jacob's room / Virginia Woolf

Jake's thing / Kingsley Amis

Jill / Philip Larkin

Journey into fear / Eric Ambler

Joy of the worm / Frank Sargeson

July's people / Nadine Gordimer

Kangaroo / D.H. Lawrence

Kanthapura / Raja Rao

The Kaywana Trilogy / Edgar Mittelholzer

Keep the aspidistra flying / George Orwell

Kepler / John Banville

The keys of the kingdom / A.J. Cronin

Kindergarten / Peter Rushforth

King Jesus / Robert Graves

The king must die, and The bull from the sea / Mary Renault

Lady Chatterley's lover / D.H. Lawrence

Lanark / Alasdair Gray

Last and first men / Olaf Stapledon

Leave it to Psmith / P.G. Wodehouse

Less than angels / Barbara Pym

Life & times of Michael K / J.M. Coetzee

Life before man / Margaret Atwood

Light / Eva Figes

The little girls / Elizabeth Bowen

The little hotel / Christina Stead

Lives of girls and women / Alice Munro

Living / Henry Green.

Volume 3. Loitering with intent / Muriel Spark

The lonely Londoners / Samuel Selvon

The lonely passion of Judith Hearne / Brian Moore

Look at me / Anita Brookner

The lost flying boat / Alan Sillitoe

Love and salt water / Ethel Wilson

Love for Lydia / H.E. Bates

The loved and the lost / Morley Callaghan

The loved one / Evelyn Waugh

Lucinda Brayford / Martin Boyd

The luck of Ginger Coffey / Brian Moore

The magus / John Fowels

The man who loved children / Christina Stead

The Mandelbaum Gate / Muriel Spark

Maru / Bessie Head

Mary Olivier / May Sinclair

The master of the mill / Frederick Philip Grove

Maurice / E.M. Forster

The merry-go-round in the sea / Randolph Stow

The middle age of Mrs. Eliot / Angus Wilson

The middle ground / Margaret Drabble

Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie

Miguel Street / V.S. Naipaul

The mimic men / V.S. Naipaul

Minty Alley / C.L.R. James

Miss Peabody's inheritance / Elizabeth Jolley

Mr. Beluncle / V.S. Pritchett

Mr. Stone and the knights companion / V.S. Naipaul

Mrs. Caliban / Rachel Ingalls

Monkey grip / Helen Garner

The mountain and the valley / Ernest Buckler

The murder of Roger Ackroyd / Agatha Christie

The murderer / Roy A.K. Heath

Murphy / Samuel Beckett

My brilliant career / Miles Franklin

My life in the Bush of Ghosts / Amos Tutuola

Napoleon Symphony / Anthony Burgess

Natives of my person / George Lamming

Nectar in a sieve / Kamala Markandaya

The needle's eye / Margaret Drabble

New day / Victor Stafford Reid

Night / Edna O'Brien

Night and day / Virginia Woolf

The nine tailors / Dorothy L. Sayers

No laughing matter / Angus Wilson

No longer at ease / Chinua Achebe

Nothing / Henry Green

Nothing happens in Carmincross / Benedict Kiely

Nothing like the sun / Anthony Burgess

Nuns and soldiers / Iris Murdoch

O, how the wheel becomes it! / Anthony Powell

Occasion for loving / Nadine Gordimer

The old devils / Kingsley Amis

Other leopards / Denis Williams

Other people's worlds / William Trevor

A pagan place / Edna O'Brien

A painter of our time / John Berger

The paper men / William Golding

The pardoner's tale / John Wain

Party going / Henry Green

The passage / Vance Palmer

A passion in Rome / Morley Callaghan

People of the city / Cyprian Ekwensi

A perfect spy / John Le Carré

The Persian boy / Mary Renault

Petals of blood / Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Pincher Martin / William Golding

The pornographer / John McGahern

The portage to San Cristobal of A.H. / George Steiner

The prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Muriel Spark

The printer of Malgudi / R.K. Narayan

A quality of mercy / Paul West

Quartet in autumn / Barbara Pym

A question of power / Bessie Head

The quiet American / Graham Greene

Radcliffe / David Storey

The Raj Quartet / Paul Scott

Rat man of Paris / Paul West

Rates of exchange / Malcolm Bradbury

The razor's edge / W. Somerset Maugham

The rebel angels / Robertson Davies

The return of the soldier / Rebecca West

The revenge for love / Wyndham Lewis

The right to an answer / Anthony Burgess

Rites of passage / William Golding

The river between / Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A room on the hill / Garth St. Omer

St. Urbain's horseman / Mordecai Richler

The sandcastle / Iris Murdoch

Saturday night and Sunday morning / Alan Sillitoe

Sawbones memorial / Sinclair Ross

The scorched-wood people / Rudy Wiebe

A Scots quair / Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A search for America / Fredrick Philip Grove

Season of adventure / George Lamming

Season of anomy / Wole Soyinka.

V. 4 Second Trilogy / Joyce Cary

Self condemned / Wyndham Lewis

The serpent and the rope / Raja Rao

Settlers of the marsh / Frederick Philip Grove

The seven ages / Eva Figes

A severed head / Iris Murdoch

Shakespeare's dog / Leon Rooke

Shame / Salman Rushdie

Shikasta / Doris Lessing

Shuttlecock / Graham Swift

The siege of Krishnapur / J.G. Farrell

The Silmarillion / J.R.R. Tolkien

The Singapore grip / J.G. Farrell

Small world / David Lodge

Snooty baronet / Wyndham Lewis

The solid mandala / Patrick White

Souls and bodies / David Lodge

Sour sweet / Timothy Mo

The Space Trilogy / C.S. Lewis

The spire / William Golding

The spy who came in from the cold / John Le Carré

Stanley and the women / Kingsley Amis

Staring at the sun / Julian Barnes

The stone angel / Margaret Laurence

Strangers and brothers / C.P. Snow

Strike the father dead / John Wain

Such is my beloved / Morley Callaghan

Surfacing / Margaret Atwood

The survivor / Thomas Keneally

Swamp angel / Ethel Wilson

The sweet dove died / Barbara Pym

Sword of honour / Evelyn Waugh

Take a girl like you / Kingsley Amis

The takeover / Muriel Spark

Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe

The third policeman / Flann O'Brien

This sporting life / David Storey

The three sisters / May Sinclair

Till we have faces / C.S. Lewis

The tilted cross / Hal Porter

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy and Smiley's people / John Le Carré

Tirra lirra by the river / Jessica Anderson

Told by an idiot / Rose Macaulay

The towers of Trebizond / Rose Macaulay

Tremor of intent / Anthony Burgess

The trick of the ga bolga / Patrick McGinley

The trilogy / Samuel Beckett

Troubles / J.G. Farrell

Turvey / Earle Birney

Two solitudes / Hugh MacLennan

Two thousand season / Ayi Kwei Armah

Ultramarine / Malcolm Lowry

The unicorn / Iris Murdoch

Union Street / Pat Barker

The vendor of sweets / R.K. Narayan

Venusberg / Anthony Powell

The violins of Saint-Jacques / Patrick Leigh Fermor

The virgin and the gipsy / D.H. Lawrence

Visitants / Randolph Stow

The vivisector / Patrick White

Voices in time / Hugh MacLennan

Voss / Patrick White

The voyage out / Virginia Woolf

Waiting for the barbarians / J.M. Coetzee

A walk in the night / Alex La Guma

The wanderers / Ezekiel Mphahlele

The wars / Timothy Findley

The watch that ends the night / Hugh MacLennan

The waterfall / Margaret Drabble

Waterland / Graham Swift

Watership Down / Richard Adams

Watt / Samuel Beckett

The weather in the streets / Rosamond Lehmann

The well / Elizabeth Jolley

What's bred in the bone / Robertson Davies

Who has seen the wind / W.O. Mitchell

Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys

The widower's son / Alan Sillitoe

The wine of astonishment / Earl Lovelace

Wise virgin / A.N. Wilson

The wonder-worker / Dan Jacobson

A word child / Iris Murdoch

The world my wilderness / Rose Macaulay

A world of love / Elizabeth Bowen

A world of strangers / Nadine Gordimer

A wreath for Udomo / Peter Abrahams

A wreath of roses / Elizabeth Taylor

The year of living dangerously / C.J. Koch.