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The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that shes a brilliant writer Order a copy in case shes cancelled by Christmas THE TIMES (Book of the Year)

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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

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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 extremely funny Metro

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'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.

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When he was 15, Kevin murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher. Here, our narrator, Kevin's mother, Eva, tells the story of his upbringing to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Who is to blame for teenage atrocity

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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings.

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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 musicians heart.

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Shep Knacker has saved for 'the Afterlife', an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her. Yet Glynis has some news of her own:she's deathly ill.

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Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips will determine the course of her life. Using a parallel universe structure, we follow Irena's life as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.

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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.

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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 entertainingly problematic as Shriver Guardian

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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.

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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

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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.

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The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver

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Phenomenal Observer

Brilliant The Times

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From the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin comes the most entertaining novel about illness and death ones ever likely to read and asks the uncomfortable fiscal question: how much is one life worth

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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.

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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.