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A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. After having escaped for years to London, Corlis McCrea returns to the grand Reconstr ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the compelling and confronting story of a sister who risks her marriage to save her morbidly obese brother. When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize ...Show more
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people. Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American fa ...Show more
Mania by Lionel Shriver
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars The year is 2011, but not the 2011 we know. The Mental Parity movement has taken hold and Americans now embrace the sacred, ...Show more
Motion of the Body through Space by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin 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 jo ...Show more
Ordinary Decent Criminals by Lionel Shriver
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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. ...Show more
Property by Lionel Shriver
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Interm ...Show more
Property: A Collection by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 he ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
“The Cassandra of American letters.”- New York Times When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief? Both healthy and vital medical professionals in their early fifties, ...Show more
Should We Stay Or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.A lot can change in thirty years, however...By turns hilarious and touching, playful and grave, Should ...Show more
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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 from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin. It is 2029. The Mandibles have been counting ...Show more