AngloSaxon Attitudes Author:Angus Wilson "Cover photograph shows Doglas Hodge as Gerald Middleton in 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes', the Euston Films production for Thames Television. Directed by Diarmuid Lawrence and produced by Andrew Brown."
This novel has been reprinted by New York Times Review Books, so can be called a classic of British fiction. The setting is academia, the protagonist and professor of medieval history who has participated in a famous fraud.