Novels
- The Accidental Woman, Duckworth, 1987
- A Touch of Love, Duckworth, 1989
- The Dwarves of Death, Fourth Estate, 1990
- What a Carve Up! or The Winshaw Legacy Viking, 1994 (winner of the 1994 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize)
- The House of Sleep, Viking, 1997 (winner of the Prix Médicis)
- The Rotters' Club, Viking, 2001 (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize).
- The Closed Circle, Viking, 2004
- The Rain Before It Falls, Viking, 2007
- The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Viking, 2010
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“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The novels are as useful as Bibles, if they teach you the secret, that the best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)