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  • The Family Man

  • Afternoon of a Faun

    "Slippery, provoking and very timely." -- Wall Street JournalWhen an old flame accuses him of sexual assault, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly to the brink of ruin. Marco confides in a close friend, the unnamed narrator, wh...

  • Victory

    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020**Two timely explorations of male sexual violence, power and corruption ...

  • The Fall Guy

    In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matt...

  • Give Me Everything You Have

  • The Siege

  • It's Beginning to Hurt

    The stories in this remarkable collection -- including "An Anxious Man," winner of the National Short Story Prize (UK) -- are vibrant and gripping. James Lasdun's great gift is his unfailing psychological instinct for the vertiginous moments when the...

  • Seven Lies

    "Superb. . . . Every page of this narration bears examples of Lasdun's own poetic mastery. . . . Shockingly vivid." -- Time Out Part political thriller, part meditation on the nature of desire and betrayal, Seven Lies tells the story of Stefan Vogel,...

  • The Horned Man

    "Unputdownable...a masterpiece of chilling, mesmerizing control." -- Michael Dirda, Washington PostThe Horned Man opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying tale of a man losing his place in the world. As La...



  • Besieged

    James Lasdun's two collections of short stories, Delirium Eclipse and Three Evenings, have won him outstanding praise as one of the most distinctive British writers of his generation, both as a stylist and as a storyteller. His work has been describe...

  • Three Evenings

    A collection of new short stories by the author of Delirium Eclipse deals with deception, misunderstanding, and the destructive power of one human being over another. By the author of A Jump Start. ...

  • Delirium Eclipse and Other Stories

    Nine stories deal with an arrogant foreign aid administrator, a young radical who deserts his ailing leader, a college professor lost in the Paris Metro, a boy fascinated with his grandmother's jewels, and a greedy child's efforts to prevent his moth...

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Lasdun has published 12 books.

The next book by James Lasdun, The Family Man, will be published in July 2026.

The first book by James Lasdun, Delirium Eclipse and Other Stories, was published in July 1986.

No. James Lasdun does not write books in series.