Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air, and on the make, in David Lodge"s satirical "Small World". It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air..."A wonderful tissue of outrageous coincidences and correspondences, teasing elevations of suspense and delayed climaxes" - "Observer".