Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the editor series editor of Bloomsbury's Contemporary Critical Perspectives series, the editor of Ian McEwan (2013), and co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro (2009) and Julian Barnes (2011), all published by Bloomsbury. His monograph The Making of London (2011) traces the representation of London in contemporary fiction.