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Graham Greene was an important novelist whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s.

Greene was a convert to Catholicism and his novels explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world.

Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include, The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ), A Burnt-Out Case ( 1961 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ).

Evelyn Waugh's ( 1903 – 66 ) career also continued after World War II, and in " 1961 he completed his most considerable work, a trilogy about the war entitled Sword of Honour.

In 1947 Malcolm Lowry published Under the Volcano, while George Orwell's satire of totalitarianism, 1984, was published in 1949.

One of the most influential novels of the immediate post-war period was William Cooper's ( 1910-2002 ) naturalistic Scenes from Provincial Life ( 1950 ), which was a conscious rejection of the modernist tradition.

Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell ( 1905-2000 ) whose twelve-volume cycle of novels A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951-1975 ), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century ; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire Lucky Jim ( 1954 ); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island ; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

Her works including Under the Net ( 1954 ), The Black Prince ( 1973 ) and The Green Knight ( 1993 ).

Scottish writer Muriel Spark's also began publishing in the 1950s.

She pushed the boundaries of realism in her novels.

Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.

Anthony Burgess is especially remembered for his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange ( 1962 ), set in the not-too-distant future, which was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.

In the entirely different genre of Gothic fantasy Mervyn Peake ( 1911 – 68 ) published his highly successful Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959.