Patrick McGrath

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, a woman of great beauty and formidable intelligence, is married to Max, a staid and unimaginative forensic psychiatrist. Max has taken a job in a huge top-security mental hospital in rural England,...

"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 Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment. She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories...

At any one time at least five million people in the United States are experiencing the symptoms of ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder (OCD), a mental disorder defined by recurrent, unwelcome thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) that OCD sufferers feel driven to perform. The OCD Answer Book is an authoritative reference for these adults and their loved ones, providing sound advice and immediate answers to their most pressing questions....

Inseparable since childhood, Jack and Gin Rathbone inhabit a world of privilege and eccentricity into which no strangers are permitted. Until, that is, Jack falls passionately in love with Vera Savage: a flamboyant and reckless artist over ten years his senior. When they flee to New York City within weeks of meeting, Gin is forced to witness their relationship unfold from a bruised, bereft distance. But when Jack and Vera move to Port Mungo, a seedy...

Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, and his kindness to animals.

Bill is reared by coyotes, hugs two grizzly bears to death, tames a mountain lion, finds Widow-Maker, rides a cyclone and digs Death Valley. Finally he falls in love with Slue-Foot Sue, a lovestory that ends with tragedy.

A hospital for the criminally insane becomes a hotbed of passion, obsession, and manipulation when a psychiatrist's wife and an inmate begin a torrid affair...resulting in a shocking turn of events.