Determined to die with dignity, Kay and her husband Cyril – both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties – make a pact: to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned eighty....

In her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age\"s most enduring obsessions: property....

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 fiscal question: how much is one life worth? Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his working life for a one way ticket away from the daily grind....

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 the choices that unfold before us and what our decisions really mean. Irina McGovern\"s destiny hinges on a single kiss....

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 what we are stuck with, like it or not....

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....

All 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 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....

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 international currency, the dollar is in meltdown....

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 international currency, the dollar is in meltdown....

Kurz vor seinem sechzehnten Geburtstag richtet Kevin in der Schule ein Blutbad an. Innerhalb weniger Stunden ist das Leben seiner Mutter Eva nicht mehr, wie es war. Von allen verurteilt und ab sofort auf sich selbst gestellt, findet sie den M...

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....

Kurz vor seinem sechzehnten Geburtstag richtet Kevin in der Schule ein Blutbad an. Innerhalb weniger Stunden ist das Leben seiner Mutter Eva nicht mehr, wie es war. Von allen verurteilt und ab sofort auf sich selbst gestellt, findet sie den Mut, sich in aller Offenheit qualenden Fragen auszusetzen: Hatte sie ihre Ehe retten konnen?...

Irina McGovern kann sich ein Leben ohne den klugen, geistreichen und verlasslichen Lawrence nicht vorstellen – auch wenn die Leidenschaft ihrer Liebe mit den Jahren abgeflaut ist. Doch als Irina s...

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday....