Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is a novelist whose previous books include Orange Prize–winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications. She is frequently interviewed on television, radio, and in print media. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin : Film tie-in edition
Lionel Shriver
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005.
Narrated by a mother, Eve, in letters to her estranged husband, this is a truly horrific story of a 15-year old boy’s killing spree but more than that it's the tale of how...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/08/2011
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So Much for That
Lionel Shriver
Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his working life for a one way ticket away from the daily grind. When he sells his handyman business for $1million, 'The Afterlife' seems tantalisingly within reach. Yet his wife has concocted one reason...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/03/2011
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So Much for That
Lionel Shriver
Shortlisted for the prestigious U.S. National Book Award 2010.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 April 2010.
A book about terminal illness and battling the healthcare system may not sound much fun but Lionel Shriver adds her marvellous...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/03/2010
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005.
Narrated by a mother, Eve, in letters to her estranged husband, this is a truly horrific story of a 15-year old boy’s killing spree but it is more the tale of how he...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 09/05/2006
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Double Fault
Lionel Shriver
The latest offering from the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. A dazzling novel with perceptive insights on love and marriage. As you'd expect from a past winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Shriver's writing is...
Format: Paperback (c Format) - Released: 07/05/2006
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We Need To Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2005
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