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Famous for his witty campus novels and penetrating stories of contemporary life, David Lodge has recently branched out to explore the creative lives of past writers, first with Henry James in Author, Author and now with HG Wells. In A Man of Parts, the ailing Herbert George Wells is sequestered in his Blitz-battered Regent’s Park house in 1944 and looks back on a life crowded with incident, books and women. Once he was the most famous writer in the world, 'the man who invented tomorrow'; now he feels like yesterday’s man, deserted by readers and depressed by the collapse of his utopian dreams. Unfolding this astonishing story, David Lodge depicts a man as contradictory as he was talented: a socialist who enjoyed his affluence, an acclaimed novelist who turned against the literary novel, a feminist womaniser. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet one of our most acclaimed writers.