Introduction / Daniel O'Gorman and Robert Eaglestone -- Part I: Forms. The networked novel / Caroline Edwards -- Globalization / Kristian Shaw -- Sincerity / Martin Paul Eve -- Autobiografiction / Timothy C. Baker -- Experiment / Jennifer Hodgson -- Comedy / Huw Marsh -- Metafiction / Xavier Marcó del Pont -- Pastoral / Deborah Lilley -- Realisms / Sophie Vlacos -- Comics and graphic novels / Harriet E.H. Earle -- Part II: Identities. Black British fiction / Sara Upstone -- Queer / Alexandra Parsons -- Family / Stephen J. Burn -- Religion / Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tate -- Diaspora / Leila Kamali -- Indian fiction in English / E. Dawson Varughese -- Northern Irish fiction / Caroline Magennis -- Animals / Danielle Sands -- Part III: Ruptures. (The) digital / Zara Dinnen -- Anthropocene / Sam Solnick -- Displacement / Emily Hogg -- Asylum / Agnes Woolley -- Finance / Paul Crosthwaite -- The 9/11 novel / Arin Keeble -- War on terror / Daniel O'Gorman -- From civil rights to #BLM / Anna Hartnell -- The past / Robert Eaglestone -- Hope / Emily Horton -- Part IV: Case studies. Granta's 'Best of young British novelists' / Katy Shaw -- Hari Kunzru / Lucienne Loh -- Jennifer Egan / Dorothy Butchard -- David Mitchell / Sarah Dillon -- Jonathan Lethem / Joseph Brooker -- Ali Smith / Daniel Lea -- A. L. Kennedy / Carole Jones -- Hilary Mantel / Jennifer Bavidge -- Marilynne Robinson / Rachel Sykes -- Colson Whitehead / Christopher Lloyd.