From our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness.In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ASYLUM, TRAUMA AND THE WARDROBE MISTRESS'Wonderful, thrilling' JOHN BANVILLE'Has pleasure on every page' TIMESIt's 1975 and Francis McNulty, ageing poet, retired, is living in his childhood...

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, this story set in the cold winter of 1947 follows the revelatory aftermath of a prominent stage actor's abrupt demise, and explores the theme of fascism's secretive survival...

A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he...

___________________________________________'An atmospheric novel, with a magnificently unreliable narrator . . . McGrath is a connoisseur of this literary tradition.' Financial Times'The pleasure in a Patrick McGrath novel is the...

This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell....

Eine junge Frau entdeckt sich selbst Eine rätselhafte Aura umgibt die schmale junge Frau, der Sidney bei einer Buchpräsentation in New York begegnet. Constance zieht ihn erotisch an und weckt seinen Beschützerinstinkt. Dass sie unter...