How to Read a Novel

We assume reading is like riding a bicycle – you can do it or you can’t. But reading well is almost as difficult as writing well.

This book is a guide to how to do it.

John Sutherland takes the reader on a literary journey from the first English novels of three hundred years ago to the present avalanche of ten thousand a year, and gives us new insights into what we read, new questions to pose and the means to pursue them.