{"product_id":"9781529114898","title":"Varying Degrees of Success : The new memoir from one of Britain's best loved writers by David Lodge","description":"In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers.  With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day, and together form a remarkable autobiography. He describes the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres, his extensive travels around the world, and the hope and desire of writers to make a significant and positive impression on their readers and audiences. Varying Degrees of Success provides the reader with a privileged insight into the working practices and the creative life of a major British novelist.   'Continuously engaging... Glimpses of the ambition and energy required to fuel the final stretch of his near 60-year career as the most dependable of novelist-critics' New Statesman'Lodge is the best British novelist never to have won the Man Booker prize' The Times\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204572709042,"sku":"9781529114898","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781529114898.jpg?v=1690649793","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529114898","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}