Penulis: Lionel Shriver

Den Alltagsärger hinter sich lassen, die Welt sehen, nachdenken – so hat sich Shepherd den Rest seines Lebens vorgestellt. Seine Frau Glynis kann ihm dabei nicht folgen – sie stellt ihn vor eine trag …

Kurz vor seinem sechzehnten Geburtstag richtet Kevin in der Schule ein Blutbad an. Innerhalb weniger Stunden ist das Leben seiner Familie nicht mehr, wie es war. – Lionel Shriver erzählt aus der Sich …

Irina Mc Govern kann sich ein Leben ohne den klugen, geistreichen und verlässlichen Lawrence nicht vorstellen – auch wenn die Leidenschaft ihrer Liebe mit den Jahren abgeflaut ist. Doch als Irin …

USA im Jahr 2029. Der Dollar ist kollabiert und durch eine Reservewährung ersetzt. Wasser ist kostbar geworden. Und Florence Mandible und ihr dreizehnjähriger Sohn Willing essen seit viel zu langer Z …

The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin Irina Mc Govern’s destiny hinges on a single kiss. Whether she gives into its temptation will determine whether she s …

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 ye …

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 …

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 …

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 s …

‘A gutsy, heartfelt novel’ Sunday Times'[Shriver’s] best novel yet’ Independent on Sunday’A surprising sledgehammer of a novel’ The Times’Shriver is brilliant on the novel shock that is hunger… glo …

THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM THE ORANGE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN.’Distinctly chilling’ Independent ‘Unsettling as it is entertaining’ Financial Times’It’s scaring the hell …

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 …

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 …

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 aba …

A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a sur …

‘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, &qu …

The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver’Genius’ Stylist’Phenomenal’ Observer’Brilliant’ The Times In her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the …

‘A brutal treat’ Daily Mail Includes an exclusive first look at Lionel Shriver’s new novel, THE MOTION OF THE BODY THROUGH SPACEFrom the award-winning novelist and short story writer, Lionel Shriver, …

Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis Mc Crea moves back into her family’s grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother …

Set against the vivid backdrop of modern-day Africaa continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort Lionel Shriver’s Game Controlis a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and g …

Shriver shows in a masterstroke why character is fate and how sport reveals it.New York Times Book Review From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the internation …

Acclaimed author Lionel Shriverauthor of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion …

A new edition of one of bestselling author Lionel Shrivers early novels, reissued 25 years after first publicationan engrossing commentary on the intersection of politics and human relationships, set …

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 B …

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 and uncertainty of …

WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010 ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school …

From Alan Bennett’s Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan’s Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they’re important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the …

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From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin’Enjoyably abrasive… a compelling read… sardonic and elegant’ Evening Standard’Scabrously funny… few authors can be as enterta …

Was, wenn die alten Freunde nicht zur neuen Partnerin passen? Weston liebt Paige, doch als es ans Heiraten geht, verlangt sie von ihm ein Opfer. Er soll sich von seiner langjährigen Freundin – und Ex …

In Lionel Shrivers entertaining send-up of todays cult of exercisewhich not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal li …

Eva soha nem akart igazán anya lenni, és semmiképpen nem egy olyan fiúénak, aki hét iskolatársát, egy menzai alkalmazottat és egy tanárt gyilkol meg két nappal a tizenhatodik születésnapja előtt. Mos …

A közeljövő Amerikájában játszódó, sugárzóan szellemes, éleslátó regény egy valamikori jómódú család négy generációját követi nyomon, amint keresztülbotorkálnak a – nagyon is ijesztően valóságosnak t …

A best fiction book of 2021 for The Times’Hilarious… Fiery phrases spit and crackle. Disgust expands and bursts into belly laughs… a very funny book’ Sunday Times’Thought-provoking, timely, and e …

Short story writers often say that, for maximum dramatic effect, you should arrive fashionably late to a scene. After years of living in the literary wilderness, it seems the short story’s own moment …

Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read in one sitting. Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect, he argued, once the eff …

»Shriver scheint uns immer ein paar Schritte voraus zu sein. Sie ist die Kassandra der amerikanischen Literatur.« New York Times Book Review »Ich habe beschlossen, einen Marathon zu laufen«, verkünde …

With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American fam …

From Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, comes a striking new novel about family, m …

‘Wharton’s dazzling skills as a stylist, creator of character, ironical observer and unveiler of passionate, thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following Sunday Times Newland Archer and May …

The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.’This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she’s a brilliant writer… Order a copy in case she’s cancelled …

From the Orange Prize-winning author of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN comes the new novel everyone will be talking about. It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irina Mc Govern does or does not lean in to …

When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson cant cry. Over ten years, Alzheimers had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely ones own father passing should never come as such a relie …

A striking collection of essays from the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Should We Stay or Should We Go, So Much for That, and The Post-Birthday World.Novelist, cultural observer, …

Von der Anomalie namens Leben Bei einem verhängnisvollen Sherry beschließen Cyril und Kay Wilkinson, mit 80 Jahren freiwillig aus dem Leben zu scheiden. Krankheit, Siechtum und Leid: Die beiden wisse …

‘Exhilarating’ THE TIMES’Uproarious’ MAIL ON SUNDAY’Merciless and funny’ ECONOMIST’Outrageous’ SPECTATOR’Funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my blood was runni …