Bibliography

The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

This is the new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of "We Need to Talk About Kevin". It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a...

Double Fault by Lionel Shriver

In this hard-hitting new novel by the author of "Female of the Species", the perils of career rivalry in modern marriage are played out in the merciless world of professional tennis. When two middle-ranked tennis pros marry, animated shoptalk and blissful lovemaking soon give way to full-tilt competition over who...

Game Control by Lionel Shriver

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...

The Book Club Bible: The Definitive Guide That Every Book Club Member Needs by Lionel Shriver

Every book-club member has felt the pressure to pick out a new title for the whole group to read and enjoy. Wouldn't it be great if there was a book that helped you to make that all-important decision and maintain your place of respect in the book club? Fear no more, "The Book Club Bible" is here to help, shining...

A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver

A novel about an inheritance dispute in the American South. The McCreas are grown children of a renowned lawyer and his community-spirited wife - liberals whose exemplary behaviour their offspring decline to emulate. The parents' deaths leave the three heirs with a grand Reconstruction mansion.

Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver

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 O'Phelan. Born into conflict, his acute mind is irredeemably twisted by his efforts to make sense of Ireland.

The Female of the Species by Lionel Shriver

27/5/87--2500X251.48PX$11.95(3000X227.1P). 416PP.234X153MM.OFFSET. OF GRAY UNTIL THIS PROUD AND FIERCE WOMAN IS REDUCED TO MISERABLE DEPENDANCE

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, Lionel Shriver

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction....

The Hustler by Walter Tevis, Lionel Shriver

To Fast Eddie Felsen, a young pool hustler, there was only one thing that mattered: to make the big time and the big money in the world of pool by beating the best in the country. Hustling suckers in small towns for good stake money was practice for his goal and when he felt ready he went to Bennington's pool hall...

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, Lionel Shriver

Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tranquillizer twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers that...

Checker and the Derailleurs by Lionel Shriver

The Bleeding Heart by Lionel Shriver