Postmodernism in English literature

The last decades of the 20th century saw an upsurge of literary production in England. However, literature seemed to take little interest in actualities. All critics noted the absence of "straight" novels, that is, works with a traditionally solid, coheren narrative. There were very few long prose works about the condition of England or the class system, or other themes so characteristic of the 19lh century and pre-WW II novels focusing on the life of an individual or a family. Instead of writing about here and now, more and more writers set their novels either in the past or in the future