In a career spanning six decades David Lodge has been one of Britains bestloved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he completes a trilogy of memoirs which describe his life from birth in 1935 to the present day and together form a remarkable autobiography. He describes the highs and lows of being a professional creative writer in several different genres his extensive travels around the world and the hope and desire of writers to make a significant and positive impression on their readers and audiences. Varying Degrees of Success provides the reader with a privileged insight into the working practices and the creative life of a major British novelist.Continuously engaging... Glimpses of the ambition and energy required to fuel the final stretch of his near 60year career as the most dependable of novelistcritics New StatesmanLodge is the best British novelist never to have won the Man Booker prize The Times