Anne Tyler

Through every family run memories that bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception....

Micah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. He is content with the steady balance of his life. But then the order of things starts to tilt....

How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life?....

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other....

It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit.

"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…"....

Friday August 15th, 1997: the night the girls arrived. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this....

From a beloved prize-winning author comes a major new novel - a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today....

A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it’s never too late to change direction and choose your own path....

Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children....

One morning, Rebecca wakes up and realises she has turned into the wrong person....

Jeremy is a childlike, painfully shy bachelor who has never left home....

Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man....

When Dorothy came back from the dead....

For 35-year-old Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from the mundaneness of every day life's earthly possessions and emotional complications....

When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and his parents age before his eyes....

Morgan Gower has an outsize hairy beard, an array of peculiar costumes and fantastic headwear, and a serious smoking habit....

Having sacked her handyman, newly widowed Mrs Emerson finds a replacement in Elizabeth, a lanky, awkward girl....

When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way....

Ranging from the ragtime era to small-town America in the '70s, Searching for Caleb is a moving quest for a family's deepest roots - and a haunting story of growing up and breaking away, acceptance and rebellion....