Pseud’s Corner

John Sutherland

  • Duffy as Dan Kavanagh
    Cape, 181 pp, £4.95, July 1980, ISBN 0 224 01822 1
  • Moscow Gold by John Salisbury
    Futura, 320 pp, £1.10, March 1980, ISBN 0 7088 1702 5
  • The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
    Weidenfeld, 248 pp, £5.95, June 1980, ISBN 0 297 77808 0
  • The Boy Who followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
    Heinemann, 292 pp, £6.50, April 1980, ISBN 0 434 33520 7

Every publication is required, by law I believe, to carry the printer’s name. No such rigorous obligation attaches to statements of authorship. It is a licence that fiction, in particular, has richly exploited. Ever since its rise the novel has flirted with authorial anonymity and pseudonymity. Great unknowns, pen names and spoof attributions figure centrally in the genre’s history, from Scott, to George Eliot, to Kilgore Trout.

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[*] Two of her earlier novels, The Cry of the Owl and The Glass Cell, have just been reissued by Penguin.