A Man of Parts by David Lodge (2011)
Published in 2011, this novel follows the life of one of the most famous British twentieth-century writers. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent’s Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and women. Charting his unpromising start as a draper’s assistant and his rapid rise to fame as a writer with a prophetic imagination, his immersion in socialist politics and his belief in and practice of free love, A Man of Parts is an astonishing novel of passion, ambition and controversy.
