'Only disconnect' – in Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan depicts Britain's great unravelling
In his latest novel, Andrew O'Hagan characterises almost every aspect of his society as broadly criminal, in one sense or another.
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In his latest novel, Andrew O'Hagan characterises almost every aspect of his society as broadly criminal, in one sense or another.
Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel is a sprawling bit of social realism that exposes the inner workings of a society.
The strands of this 700-page novel feel more like a series of loosely-linked narratives than a cohesive whole
This Dickensian yarn of a celebrity writer heading for a fall combines the bling of an airport bestseller with an insider’s grasp on high culture
Andrew O’Hagan’s sensational state-of-the-nation novel Caledonian Road begins with the protagonist Campbell Flynn – art critic, academic, ‘podcast warrior’ – gliding through the streets of London in the back of a glass-ceilinged black cab. Entirely dry-eyed himself, Flynn is off to meet his literary agent for lunch in the Wolseley to discuss his new book Why Men Weep in Their Cars: The Crisis of Male Identity in the Twenty-First Century.