David Lodges' books sell throughout the world in multitudes of copies. Many different characteristics of his style of writing gave rise to this success. His style is light, although reading his novels may be quite a challenge in terms of vocabulary for a non-native speaker of English. His favourite subject matter is the world of academics. It is always a source for an original set of characters and a bunch of grotesque situations. Some of his books focus only on the circle of society. `Small world' ridicules relations and customs of this closed world of lecturers. `British Museum is falling down' is a story of a modest graduate on the path on an academic career. However, in `Nice work' Lodge presents to us a slightly different...