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Books by Amanda Craig
  | | The Lie of the Land(1st Edition) by Amanda Craig Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2018 by Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-14268-5, ISBN: 0-349-14268-8 "CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISHTIMES 'Terrific, page-turning, slyly funny' India Knight 'As satisfying a novel as I have read in years' Sarah Perry 'Amanda Craig is one of the most brilliant and entertaining novelists now working in Britain' Alison Lurie Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their ..." |
 | | In a Dark Wood(Reprint) A Novel by Amanda Craig Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2003 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72117-2, ISBN: 0-385-72117-X "Thirty-nine, recently divorced, jobless, Benedick Hunter is an actor heading in the exact opposite direction of happily ever after: everything from spending time with his own children to the prospect of dating brings him down. So when he comes across a children's book his mother Laura wrote, he decides that her life and work--haunting stories replete with sinister woods and wicked witches and brave girls who battle giants--hold the key ..." |
 | | Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig, Howard Hughes Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2010 by Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-11587-0, ISBN: 0-349-11587-7 "Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine, and fifteen-year-old Anna, trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overwork ..." |
 | | Love in Idleness(Reprint) by Amanda Craig Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Anchor ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3107-8, ISBN: 1-4000-3107-9 "In her delightful reimagining of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Amanda Craig slyly serves up a witty cross-cultural farce, a modern-day tale of love and lies set against the magical landscape of Tuscany. When Theo, a workaholic lawyer, his English wife Polly, and their two children rent an idyllic Italian villa, they expect a relaxing summer holiday together. Polly, with her loved ones’ romantic interests at heart, has invited an eccentric ..." |
 | | The Golden Rule Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 (Hardback) by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2020 by Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4087-1152-1, ISBN: 1-4087-1152-4 "The Times - Books for 2020 Sunday Times - Books to look out for in 2020 Observer - Fiction to look out for in 2020, Alex Preston: 'The Golden Rule does what her novels do best, wrapping the reader in a tight, lean narrative, showing the ..." |
 | | A VICIOUS CIRCLE by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 1996 by Fourth Estate Import ISBN-13: 978-1-85702-681-8, ISBN: 1-85702-681-0 |
 | | A Private Place by Amanda Craig 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Abacus 04/04/2013 ISBN-13: 978-0-349-13954-8, ISBN: 0-349-13954-7 "Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded." |
 | | A VICIOUS CIRCLE(Updated) by Amanda Craig Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1997 by Fourth Estate ISBN-13: 978-1-85702-685-6, ISBN: 1-85702-685-3 |
 | | The Lie of the Land(1st Edition) by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2017 by Little Brown Books Group ISBN-13: 978-1-4087-0929-0, ISBN: 1-4087-0929-5 "Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many modern couples, can't afford to divorce. Having lost their jobs in the recession, they can't afford to go on living in London; instead, they must downsize and move their three children to a house in a remote part of Devon. Arrogant and adulterous, Quentin can't understand why Lottie is so angry; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to have been intolerably wounded. Mud, mice and quarrels a ..." |
 | | The Other Side of You by Amanda Craig Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2017 by Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-14172-5, ISBN: 0-349-14172-X "For the gang he left behind is still there. How can he live without becoming a killer? How can he love without being a thief? Exciting, fast-paced and different, this is a story that keeps you reading until the last line." |
 | | Love in Idleness A Novel by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Nan A. Talese ISBN-13: 978-0-385-50776-9, ISBN: 0-385-50776-3 "Love in Idleness is at once a deft interpretation of Shakespeare and a delectable contemporary comedy of manners that is certain to captivate." |
 | | Love in Idleness by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 346 Pages, Published 2003 by Little, Brown ISBN-13: 978-0-316-72485-2, ISBN: 0-316-72485-8 |
 | | A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-13932-6, ISBN: 0-349-13932-6 "A Vicious Circle exposes the corruption of London's journalistic circuit, the horrors of our hospitals and slums, and the transformations caused by motherhood. Gripping, tender and fiercely funny, it has been instantly recognised as a modern classic about the way we live now." |
 | | A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Hachette Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-4055-1678-5, ISBN: 1-4055-1678-X "said Amelia. 'I used to enjoy clothes and sex and fast cars, and now I feel like the Virgin Mary.' All she could do on hot days was ... Amelia had been born at St George's, before it got turned into a hotel, yetonce, when she had been complaining ..." |
 | | Hearts And Minds by Amanda Craig Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by Little, Brown ISBN-13: 978-1-4087-0190-4, ISBN: 1-4087-0190-1 "Yet when her au pair, Iryna, disappears, Polly's own needs and beliefs drag her family into a world of danger, deceit and terror.Riveting, humane, engaging, HEARTS AND MINDS is a novel that is both entertaining and prepared to ask the most ..." |
 | | Hearts and Minds(1st Edition) by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Little, Brown Import ISBN-13: 978-0-316-72483-8, ISBN: 0-316-72483-1 "Hidden by London’s wealth, energy and need for cheap labour, the city’s immigrant population is powerless, despised and often illegal. So when a young woman’s body is discovered on Hampstead Heath one cold morning, she could be anyone...Rich or poor, outsider or insider, five strangers are connected in undreamed-of ways as greed, courage, murder and kindness link their lives. Polly Noble, a human rights lawyer and single mother, knows m ..." |
 | | A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-00-729155-7, ISBN: 0-00-729155-8 "Some compromise themselves completely; others oscillate between vice and virtue. Others are redeemed by twists of fate. For in a vicious circle, nothing is certain except change." |
 | | In a Dark Wood in a Dark Wood in a Dark Wood by Amanda Craig Unbound, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-385-50562-8, ISBN: 0-385-50562-0 "Lorna Owen and her team have caught out my errors concerning American culture with humor and sensitivity. Unlike Benedick, I love America but still know too little about details that Americans take for granted. Fourth Estate has shown me exemplary patience and support. Mary Chamberlain, Howard Davies, Katie Owen, and in particular Christopher Potter have combined tact with inspirational suggestions. So, too, did my agent, Giles Gor ..." |
 | | In a Dark Wood(Updated) by Amanda Craig Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Fourth Estate Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85702-700-6, ISBN: 1-85702-700-0 "A major new work by the bestselling author of A Vicious Circle, on a larger scale and more serious than her previous fiction, but with her characteristic satirical edge and page-turningly suspenseful plotting. Benedick Hunter is a failure. A divorced father and unemployed actor sunk in self-pity, his life takes a new direction when he finds a book of his dead mother's fairy-tales in which real people and events from a tragic past seem ..." |
 | | A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 1996 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd Import ISBN-13: 978-0-241-00171-4, ISBN: 0-241-00171-4 "A brilliantly witty satire of modern manners, dissecting and connecting modern London, from its literary circuit to its hospitals and slums, as well as giving a funny and poignant portrait of childbirth and motherhood. This gripping, moving and hiliarious novel introduces seven characters, each of whom has a profound effect on each other's lives. Each must choose between probity and self-interest in love and work. Some compromise thems ..." |
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