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A Perfectly Good Family

Lionel Shriver

A Perfectly Good Family

Following the success of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and ‘The Post-Birthday World’, ‘A Perfectly Good Family’ is coming back into print after being unavailable for years.After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the grand Reconstruction mansion where she grew up in North Carolina, now willed to the three grown children following the death of their parents. All three want the house.Fiscal necessity dictates that two must buy a third out. Just as she was torn as a girl,...

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Lionel Shriver

Big Brother

Lionel Shriver

Big Brother

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Big Brother

Lionel Shriver

Big Brother

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Big Brother

Lionel Shriver

Big Brother

The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. The once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened?Soon Edison’s slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues are driving Pandora and her fitness-freak husband Fletcher insane. After the brother-in-law has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers...

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Checker and the Derailleurs

Lionel Shriver

Checker and the Derailleurs

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Checker and the Derailleurs

Lionel Shriver

Checker and the Derailleurs

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 its weight in gold. And how jealously can grow until it has eaten away at a musician’s heart.He has that thing that they’d all pay for but can’t buy: on stage and off, the 19-year-old rock drummer Checker Secretti is electric. When he plays with his band The Derailleurs, the natives of Astoria, Queens clamour for a piece of him. But charisma comes at...

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Double Fault

Lionel Shriver

Double Fault

‘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“Love me, love my game,” says professional tennis player Willy Novinsky at twenty-three. Tennis has been Willy’s one love, until she meets the uncannily confident Eric Oberdorf. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit.They marry. But their life together soon grows poisoned by...

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Female of the Species

Lionel Shriver

Female of the Species

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Game Control

Lionel Shriver

Game Control

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Game Control

Lionel Shriver

Game Control

Following the success of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and ‘The Post-Birthday World’, ‘Game Control’ is coming back into print after being unavailable for years.Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers...

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Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

Lionel Shriver

Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

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New Republic

Lionel Shriver

New Republic

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Ordinary Decent Criminals

Lionel Shriver

Ordinary Decent Criminals

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 Ireland.Having abandoned Philadelphia for the life of an international nomad, Estrin Lancaster has a taste for hot spots. She now finds herself in Belfast, a city scarred by twenty years of ritualised violence.As the former purveyor of his own bomb-disposal service, Farrell O’Phelan courts the company of destruction....

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Perfectly Good Family

Lionel Shriver

Perfectly Good Family

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Post-Birthday World

Lionel Shriver

Post-Birthday World

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Property

Lionel Shriver

Property

The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver‘Genius’ Stylist‘Phenomenal’ Observer‘Brilliant’ The TimesIn her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age’s most enduring obsessions: property.A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for her best friend; a thirty-something son refuses to leave home; a middle-aged man subjugated by service to his elderly father discovers that the last place you should finally assert yourself is airport...

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So Much for That

Lionel Shriver

So Much for That

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So Much for That

Lionel Shriver

So Much for That

An extraordinary novel from the Orange Prize winning author of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’.What do you pack for the rest of your life?Shepherd Knacker is bored with his humdrum existence. He's sold his successful handy-man business for a million dollars and is now ready to embark on his 'Afterlife' – a one way ticket to a small island off the coast of Africa. He tries to convince his wife Glynis to come with him, but she laughs off the idea as preposterous.There's no way she'll let Shepherd...

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Standing Chandelier

Lionel Shriver

Standing Chandelier

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Suur vend. Sari "Moodne aeg"

Lionel Shriver

Suur vend. Sari "Moodne aeg"

Pandora jaoks on toiduvalmistamine armastuse üks vorme. Õnnetuseks ei taha tema abikaasa Fletcher, eraettevõtjast tisler, enam suu sissegi võtta rammusaid roogi, mida ta kurameerimise ajal jumaldas, ja on hakanud käima pikkadel rattasõitudel. Pandora läheb lennujaama vastu oma vanemale vennale Edisonile, aga ei tunne teda ära. Vahepealsete aastate jooksul on sale ja stiilne New Yorgi jazz-pianist mitusada naela juurde võtnud. Mis on juhtunud? Kui Edison hakkab võõrustajate külalislahkust...

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The Female of the Species

Lionel Shriver

The Female of the Species

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.Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible—and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence.When young graduate...

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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

Lionel Shriver

The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

‘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 the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin.It is 2029.The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Yet America’s soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid. Under siege from an upstart...

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The Motion of the Body Through Spac...

Lionel Shriver

The Motion of the Body Through Space

From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About KevinAll her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled – but now that she’s hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. And her previously sedentary husband Remington chooses this precise moment to discover exercise.As he joins the cult of fitness, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. When he announces his intention to compete in a legendarily gruelling triathlon, Serenata is sure he's...

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The New Republic

Lionel Shriver

The New Republic

A scalpel sharp political satire from the Orange Prize winning writer of We Need to Talk About Kevin.Edgar Kellogg has always yearned to be popular. Leaving his lucrative career as a lawyer for the sexier world of journalism, he’s thrilled to be offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater with a home-grown terrorist movement. Barrington Saddler, the disappeared larger-than-life reporter he’s been sent to replace, is exactly the outsize character Edgar longs to...

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