戴維•洛奇（David John Lodge，1935—），英國著名小說傢和文學評論傢，伯明翰大學榮譽教授，英國皇傢文學院院士，以文學貢獻獲得不列顛帝國勛章和法國文藝騎士勛章。代錶作品主要有“盧密奇學院三部麯”：《換位》《小世界》和《美好的工作》；“天主教三部麯”：《大英博物館在倒塌》《你能走多遠？》和《天堂消息》；其他重要作品還有《走齣防空洞》《失聰宣判》《治療》等。並著有《小說的藝術》和《意識與小說》等多部文學批評理論文集。

National Service: two years of square-bashing, kit layout, shepherd’s pie ‘made from real shepherds’, PT and drill, relieved only by the occasional lecture on VD. Conscription has made Jonathan Browne and Mike ‘Ginger’ Brady prisoners of the British Army. But reckless, impulsive Mike and pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to this two-year confiscation of their freedom. Where Jonathan chooses to keep his head down, Mike can’t help but rebel against those in charge. Then one day Mike goes too far, with consequences that threaten to overturn Jonathan’s cultivated detachment from the idiocies of military life …