Andrew Sinclair

The changing role and status of women in America from colonial times to the present, and the American woman's unrelenting struggle for complete equality with men are the major themes of this work. Meer

He ends up on his own, beginning to see Cambridge has more to offer than a three years' muckabout in a festering fen. 'Very clever indeed . . . This portrait of la vie de boheme universitaire should raise squeals of outraged delight . Meer

The Breaking of Bumbo was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. it continues to read freshly. 'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet . Meer

Paradoxically perhaps the 1940s was a decade of cultural efflorescence. Writing, painting, theatre, cinema and dancing all thrived in this period. This book recreates the world of the 1940s with its encounters and characters, its conflicts and its discoveries, its hopes and its disillusions. Meer