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Lionel Shriver
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
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Ostracized as a kid, Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. A disgruntled New York corporate lawyer, he's more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement…
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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…
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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.
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…
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.
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 comes the most entertaining novel about illness and death one’s ever likely to read and asks the uncomfortable…
‘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
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
“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 TIMESThe brilliant new novel from…
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…
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…
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin
Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, Cyril and Kay are determined to die with dignity, so they agree to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned eighty to…
‘Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times ‘Thought-provoking, timely, and extremely funny’ Metro
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a…
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes a bold and savage story of the intersection of politics and human relationships, set in turbulent Northern…
Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia for a life of perpetual motion. Now, in Belfast, she revels more than she would like in the company of Ireland’s most inflammatory wit, Farrell…
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. ‘[Shriver’s] best novel yet’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Lionel Shriver,Barrington Saddler LLC