Allan Massie admires AN Wilson’s unfashionable preoccupation with theology
Aftershocks
by AN Wilson, Atlantic Books, 273pp, £16.99
AN Wilson’s first novel, The Sweets of Pimlico, was published a few weeks before my own debut. Yet, though we began together, he is younger by 10 years, and, while I have been fairly prolific, he has been wonderfully so. There have been more than 20 novels and at least as many biographical and historical works.
Wilson has been willing to tackle almost any subject, usually successfully. He would surely be regarded as England’s premier man of letters, but for two things, both unfashionable. The first is his prodigality – how do readers keep up with him?
