Amsterdam

Classic British & Irish Fiction

Author: Ian McEwan

Original cover edition hereWhen good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact wi….Read More

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On Chesil Beach

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career… Continue Reading Posted in: British & Irish Literary Fiction, College Students, Fiction, Historical British Fiction, Man Woman Relationships

Enduring Love

Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after 6 weeks in the States. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Erotomania, Fictional Works, Humorous Literary Fiction, LGBT Literary Fiction

The Sea

The brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of Shroud and The Book of Evidence, John Banville is, quite simply, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language… Continue Reading Posted in: Aging, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, Juvenile Fiction

Saturday

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind, a newspaper lawyer, and proud father of two grown-up children, one… Continue Reading Posted in: Comedic Dramas & Plays, Fictional Works, Literary Satire Fiction, London (England), Novels

Clay

There's a stranger in town - Stephen Rose. He's got waxy skin, haunting eyes, a sickly smell. No parents. No friends. He's come to live with 'Crazy Mary'. There are… Continue Reading Posted in: Children's Stories, Gangs, Juvenile Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Friendship, Teen & Young Adult Magical Realism Fiction

The Child in Time

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Missing Children, Psychological Fiction, Psychological Literary Fiction

Last Orders

This novel follows four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, who meet to carry out his last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. Continue Reading Posted in: Aged Men, British & Irish Literary Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Love Stories, Middle Aged Men

Bad Blood: A Memoir

From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through her adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960s, Lorna Sage brings to life… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographies, Biography, Families, Studies

The Cement Garden

2001 cover edition here In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for… Continue Reading Posted in: Domestic Fiction, Fiction In English, Psychological Fiction

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Irish Authors, Social Life And Customs

Black Dogs

In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary British Fiction, Historical European Fiction, Political Science, Politics And Government, Psychological Fiction

A Frolic of His Own

Hailed as the American heir to James Joyce, Gaddis has secured his position among the foremost contemporary writers with novels such as Carpenter's Gothic and the National Book Award-winning JR.… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Cases, College Teachers, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction

Sweet Tooth

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the… Continue Reading Posted in: 20th Century Historical Romance, Fiction, Historical Mysteries, History

The Finkler Question

He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one... Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Friendship Fiction, General, Jewish Literature, Older Men

The Comfort of Strangers

Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets… Continue Reading Posted in: Murder, Thrillers, Vacations

The Sense of an Ending

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and… Continue Reading Posted in: Memory, Psychological Fiction, Psychological Literary Fiction

The Children Act

A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the… Continue Reading Posted in: Comedic Dramas & Plays, Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Religion And Law, Text

The Innocent

Psychological thriller set in Berlin during the Cold War, based on an actual (but little known) incident which tells of the secret tunnel under the Soviet sector which the British… Continue Reading Posted in: Historical German Fiction, Historical Thrillers, Man Woman Relationships, Spy Stories, Suspense Fiction

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