... ;too good to be true", or perhaps too convenient, to be believable. There's no doubt that Shriver is an intelligent author, and my vocabulary has been challenged somewhat, but to what purpose? I was reminded of ... when reading A Painted House by John Grisham; the atmosphere was supercharged, yet nothing came of it. Lionel Shriver will remain on my TBR list. Perhaps it's a good thing ...

Gayle of Everyday I Write the Book blog alerted me to the fact that Lionel Shriver has a new novel coming out next March, and having really enjoyed WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and ... own which has devastating consequences. So Much For That is a deeply affecting novel, told with Lionel Shriver's trademark originality, intelligence and acute perception of the human condition. Sounds good! Oh, and ...

By Tracy Lionel Shriver's Game Control was a birthday present for me this year. It's a distressing and difficult novel to read -- not difficult in ... she depicts -- the reader continually winces. This is (according to her afterword) the book that lost Shriver her American publisher. (It was subsequently taken up in Britain and then saw US publication after the big success of ...

... Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver Confronted with a choice that could change your life, which road would you take? Lionel Shriver explores the alternate universes of her protagonist, Irina McGovern: one in ... she doesn’t. As Entertainment Weekly puts it, “…Shriver, a brilliant and versatile writer, allows these competing stories to unfold organically, each a ...

This link is to a podcast recording of an event which took place last Friday at the LSE:  Fiction and Reality: writing novels in a world weirder than anything you could make up. Lionel Shriver in conversation with Daniel Johnson Daniel Johnson is editor of Standpoint and Orange Prize Winning Novelist Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

First - exciting news for Lionel Shriver fans - she has a new book coming out next spring. According to BookPage, Shriver's new book, So Much For ... costs of the American healthcare system." That probably wouldn't be my first choice of topic to read about, but Shriver could write about the tax code and I would probably read it. I also have a fun giveaway: three copies of What French ...