Title: Lying together
First published: 1990
Description: A darkly comic, erotic novel which was shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize. Bored by a writers' conference in a London hotel, the narrator and three Soviet friends improvise stories that will make a novel. Like Russian dolls, the episodes they create unfold, each with another inside it.
Subjects: Colonies, Education, Fiction, general
Places: Great Britain