Patrick McGrath

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1985
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Blood & Water and Other Tales

    Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, d...

  • Spider

    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. With echoes of Be...

  • Dr. Haggard's Disease

    “A stormy tale of obsession…this is a haunting portrayal of a man broken by passion” (Library Journal).Dr. Edward Haggard is a lonely, pain-racked romantic, standing at the window of his house on the edge of a cliff, watching as the clouds of w...

  • The Grotesque

    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....

  • Asylum

    Patrick McGrath has created his most psychologically penetrating vision to date: a nightmare world rocked to its foundations by a passion of such force and intensity that it shatters the lives--and minds--of all who are touched by it.Stella Raphael, ...

  • Martha Peake

    Master storyteller Patrick McGrath--author of the critically acclaimed novel Asylum and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction--once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the te...

  • Port Mungo

    In a seedy river town on the Gulf of Honduras, Jack Rathbone believed he had found a place that would give him and his lover, the accomplished artist Vera Savage, the solitude they would need to create a body of work that would shake the art world to...

  • Ghost Town

    Three haunting and brilliant tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath

    'Sharp and haunting ... McGrath's prose is clean, lucid and utterly transfixing' Sunday Times
    'Like a latter-day Edgar Allan Poe, M...



  • Trauma

    Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people's demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York.Yet he hasn't found a way of resolving his own conflicts, particularly the fatal mistake that caused...

  • Constance

    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 he pursues Const...

  • The Wardrobe Mistress

    JANUARY 1947. London is in ruins, there’s nothing to eat, and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. To make matters worse, Charlie Grice, one of the great stage actors of the day, has suddenly died. His widow Joan, the wardrobe mistress...

  • Writing Madness

         ***FINALIST FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD***    ***WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD***     First Edition, 2017.     A fine, still sealed copy in a fine dust jacket. Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Patric...

  • Last Days in Cleaver Square

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patrick McGrath has published 14 books.

Patrick McGrath does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Last Days in Cleaver Square, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Patrick McGrath, The Lewis and Clark Expedition, was published in July 1985.

No. Patrick McGrath does not write books in series.
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