NICHOLAS ROYLE lives in Seaford
and is Professor of English at the
University of Sussex.
He is the author of the highly
acclaimed novel, Quilt ('delightfully
eccentric humour and impressive
linguistic experimentalism' Observer)
as well as seminal books on
literature, including The Uncanny
and, most recently, Veering.
His non-fiction, like his fiction, is
distinguished by playful language
and sugge...