A critically acclaimed psycho-sexual thriller follows the destructive love affair between a psychiatrist's beautiful wife and a brilliant sculptor confined to a mental hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. Reissue. (A P...

McGrath has written a quite marvellous novel; unsensational and yet slowly shocking, rich not in its surface activity, since its prose is plain and unruffled, but in the tormented depths of its spirit. The complexity and richness of t...

The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and ...

Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. ...