… Guideline Price: £14.99 The campus novel. It’s a genre that …

As far as opening lines of novels are concerned, The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta by writer and scholar Anuradha Marwah makes a lasting first impression. “It was morning. I didn’t have to go to college till 10.30 am," the chatty, eponymous …

Combine the ever popular genre of “dark academia” with a thoughtful, philosophical meditation on the afterlife, and you have R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis. In Kuang’s newest novel, her protagonists, Cambridge graduate students Alice and Peter, journey into Hell …

The Gilded Butterfly Effect by Heather Colley A powerful exploration of what it means to survive, and transform, in the gilded cage of modern campus life.  Heather Colley’s debut novel, The Gilded Butterfly Effect, is a brilliant, biting exploration of …

… responsible for popularising, namely the campus novel. Beginning with Kingsley Amis’s … distraction. Instead, this brings the campus novel into the 21st century with …

… writer, master of the sarcastic academic novel, died "peacefully," …

… the fuss was about. The campus novel was a serious literary genre … I came to write a campus novel myself, The Examiner, it was …

The young adult genre seems to have been on a downturn (or it is possible I am older). But as a teenager, I would consume any and all books placed in the category I could lay my hands on. Perhaps my reading habit developed not out of consuming serious …

… savage re-working of the campus novel, taking head on the culture …

… question: where had the Australian campus novel been before? It is not … consider the enmeshment of the campus novel into the modern literature canon …