Random House

The Outcast is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and adolescence #8211; as he grows up in the stultifying world of the home counties in the late forties and fifties. It is an everyday tale of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also a love story....

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, there were many who proclaimed that a new Elizabethan Age had begun. Few could have any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that were going to take place, in Britain and around the world. The collapse of British power in the world and the near-evaporation of its wealth were established facts, but...

From one of America's most beloved authors - of "A Widow for One Year", "The World According to Garp", "The Cider House Rules" - a moving, suspense-filled novel about a father and son, fugitives from disaster: their lives, loves, adventures. The modern American master returns with a novel that is classic Irving - epic in scope, at turns hilarious,...

From the acclaimed author of "Atonement" comes a novel of remarkable depth and poignancy. Set in 1962, "On Chesil Beach" captures with understanding and compassion the innocence of a young newlywed couple at a time when marriage has been presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence....

Whitethorn Woods is a charming novel of unforgettable people who are caught between their old-fashioned ways and modern progress that will delight her fans and attract new ones. When the new highway threatens to bypass the town and cut through Whitethorn Woods and endanger the well, the whole town is beside themselves. Everyone has an opinion. The...

Benjamin Kunkel's brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time?a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he?s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and...