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...

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. ...

Jack Rathbone is a painter of astonishing gifts, and his sister Gin is troubled when Jack takes up with another painter, a woman named Vera Savage, and leaves London with her for New York. As the years go by, Jack and Vera settle in t...

When Ambrose Tree is summoned by his ancient uncle to the brooding mansion Drogo Hall, he suspects it's to hear the old man's dying words and then collect a sizable inheritance. He has no idea he is about to learn the bizarre story of...

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.

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as 'an uncommon storyteller [with a] trademark ability to probe the layers of the human psyche,' Patrick McGrath has written his most addictive and enthralling novel yet.Charlie Weir's family is c...