As we explore novels, short fiction and poetry from the 1950s to the present, we will ask ow these texts are both marked by and speak into the context of Britain’s diminished influence since World War II. We will bring our Christian convictions to bear on our investigation of the richness and challenges of literary post-modernism and beyond, intexts by authors such as W.H. Auden, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Angela Carter, Julian Barnes, Jeanette Winterson, and Zadie Smith.