Liar's landscape : collected writing from a storyteller's life / Malcolm Bradbury ; edited and with a foreword by Dominic Bradbury ; afterword by David Lodge.

Macclesfield, 1940 -- Royal train -- Dracula country -- Sons and mothers -- A week or so in Rome -- In praise of grammar schools -- Dearing up the campus -- Under the dome -- Time called while you were out -- Reading parties -- The waiting game -- The age of anxiety: the 1950s -- The days of the history men -- Convergence: a story -- Loving Norfolk -- The recent adventures of Robinson Crusoe -- Do we have great novels any more? -- Welcome back to the history man -- The wissenschaft file -- Furling the flag -- She's got to have it -- the first great shopaholic -- A modest proposal -- John Blackwell -- Mortal fictions -- Liar's landscape -- Honoured.

When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work; some of it published and some of it not; short stories; and more. From unfinished novel to unsent letters, from prose to play, from Macclesfield to the New Year's Honours List, this work is an evidence of the late author's versatility, wit and, passion for the written word