Is contemporary British fiction actually a lot more original than we have been led to believe?

But perhaps I could read modern British fiction and catch a similar chill.

And that, after all, is a pattern entirely familiar in British fiction.

There's been a coup in the sleepy little kingdom of British fiction.

The result is that these volumes, more than being simply a collection of short stories, act as a showcase for contemporary British fiction.

They meet when Swan is his student in a class on 20th-century British fiction.

They didn't discover anything about the state of British literary fiction today.

They discovered plenty about the state of British literary fiction that is allowed to be published.

This is a characteristic which has appeared increasingly widely in post-war British fiction.

What did they discover about the state of British literary fiction today?