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Lionel Shriver
What if calling someone stupid was illegal? In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can…
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A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times ‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times ‘Thought-provoking, timely…
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A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
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From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the novel Lionel Shriver wrote directly afterwards. The Post-Birthday World is an unflinching account of…
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A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk about Kevin. ‘A superbly witty political satire’ THE TIMES
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. ‘[Shriver’s] best novel yet’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights…
Following the success of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and…
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin ‘Enjoyably abrasive… a compelling read… sardonic and elegant’ Evening Standard ‘Scabrously funny… few authors can be as entertainingly…
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‘When feminism has become the politics that dare not speak its name, it is refreshing to find an author who will bring such renewed vigour to the gender wars’ Guardian
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin comes the most entertaining novel about illness and death one’s ever likely to read and asks the uncomfortable…
From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin this is a novel about what it takes to make it in music. How charisma is worth…
"A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today's reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims . . . . The specifics of Mania are…
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"A rare voice, someone who challenges orthodoxies in the way that many journalists and public intellectuals claim to do but don't. It is bracing to spend time in the company…
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely ... I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was running cold' JOHN CLEESE
'Viciously funny... an…
When he was 15, Kevin murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher. Here, our narrator, Kevin’s mother, Eva, tells the story of his upbringing…
Edith Wharton
No one working on Wharton today places her so accurately as Nowlin. – Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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A stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, a family. That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child’s character is self-evident. But such generalizations…
Pandora Halfdanarson lives with her husband and two adolescent stepdaughters. Her husband, who has become obsessed with healthy living, is now a nutrition Nazi. She has her own business involving…
The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it.
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin The Times Best Books for Summer 2020
Fat and ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. When he’s offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a…
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet life in London with Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual. Their relationship is rock solid–until the night Irina finds herself dying to kiss another…
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family’s grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings.
Set in contemporary Kenya, this novel explores the dynamics of a Western relationship in the Third World, between two people who on the one hand believe in love and its…
‘Shriver’s intelligence, mordant humour and vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining’ FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel…
Originally published: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990 with title: The bleeding heart.
Ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word … These pieces illustrate how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves…
Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian’s son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only 15 at the time…
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The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
From the author of The Post-Birthday World comes this deeply resonant novel that looks at America’s health care system, and poses the disturbing moral question that affects more people every…
Shep Knacker has saved for ‘the Afterlife’, an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses…
Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips will determine the course of her life. Using a parallel universe structure, we follow Irena’s…
