Lionel Shriver

Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher....

The year is 2029, and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life, the dollar, is under attack. In a coordinated move by the rest of the world's governments, the dollar loses all its value....

Pandora's brother Edison needs help after gaining hundreds of pounds. But when he comes to stay with her, he disrupts her household to the point her husband threatens to leave....

The extraordinary new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’....

Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author.

A married couple decides they will take control of their final years by exiting the world together at the age of 80 - with unexpected consequences and possibilities in New York Times best-selling author Lionel Shriver’s brilliantly conceived parallel-universe novel....

A Perfectly Good Family 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....

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.

Poignant and deeply honest, written with the subtlety and wit that are the hallmarks of Shriver's work, The Post-Birthday World appeals to the what-if in us all....

In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise - which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life....

For 10 years Estrin Lancaster has fled Philadelphia. From the Philippines to Berlin, she's been a traveler without a destination, an expatriate without a motherland....

Qu'est-ce qui peut conduire un jeune garçon privilégié au pire ? À la veille de ses 16 ans, Kevin pénètre dans l'enceinte de son lycée et abat...

Uma guerra fria de escala mundial reestrutura a ordem socioeconômica do planeta, criando novos eixos de poder. A União Europeia se desfaz, a China enfim é alçada ao posto de maior potência global e o longo período de prosperidade dos Estados Unidos chega ao fim....

Shep Knacker has long saved for “The Afterlife”: an idyllic retreat to the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. ....

World-famous anthropologist Gray Kaiser has almost everything. She is brilliance, self-sufficient, and beautiful. But at 59, one thing is still missing from her life. She has never been in love....

Une réflexion sur notre rapport à la vieillesse et sur l'art délicat de préparer sa sortie. Ils l'ont décidé depuis longtemps. Pour ne pas disparaître dans...

A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word....

Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at 23, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf....

Beautiful and charismatic,19-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ever heard....

With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the hypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people....