Jack Gladney, head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, is afraid of death, as is his wife Babette and his colleague Murray who runs a seminar on car crashes. The author exposes our common obsession with mortality, and Jack and Babette's biggest fear - who will die first?

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. This book begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.

Written by the author of Libra , which won the Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, this novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists. It is haunted by the intermingled spirits of such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong.

There is September 11 and there are the days after, and finally the years. This book begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. It traces the way the events of September 11 reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world.

Gary Harkness is a football player and student at Logos College, West Texas. During a season of success on the football field, he becomes obsessed with the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in the same terms as military generals contemplate global conflict.

Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space. By the author of Libra .

A man who embarked on a business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana, suddenly found that it proved to be a journey of rather more epic and international proportions - and one which, furthermore, causes him to question his hitherto unchallenged assumptions about life, its aspirations and ambitions.

Explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are a modern New York couple who seem to have it all. But behind their ideal life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation which leads them into violent adventures. By the author of Ratner's Star .

An individual ghost story in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. Lauren Hartke's husband Rey is taking a drive to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. Lauren is left alone, or so she thinks. She is soon to discover that there is a stranger in the house. An eery individual who often speaks in Rey's voice or in her own.

Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west.

Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

A fictional speculation on the assassination of John F Kennedy, this work chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who imagines himself an agent of history.

It's a stunningly day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire. He finds Manhattan city at standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral which is proceeding through town, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Eric's bodyguards are worried that he is a target and, indeed, he is.

From the National Book Award-winning author of Falling Man, White Noise and Underworld comes an unnerving and exceptionally compelling new novel

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A supposedly unique video of Hitler's sexual antics is a desirable commodity for a variety of people. Lightborne, an ageing dealer in all art forms of a perverted nature, claims to have access to the tape and makes contact with the interested parties. By the author of Americana .

Alex Hauser, now seventy, has had his second massive stroke, and his ex-wife and son, Toinette and Sean, have come to help him die. This book explores the question of when life ends or should. It is also a play about a son looking for the father who abandoned him, and it talks about the odd emotional tenacity of relationships long-ended.

The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents.