![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_isbn9782070709540_100_200.jpg)
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0140041117-L_100_200.jpg)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1974, it was her sixteenth novel. It won the Whitbread Novel Award for 1974.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_009928359X-L_100_200.jpg)
The Philosopher's Pupil is a 1983 novel by the British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch. It is set in a small English spa town called Ennistone.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0099433540-L_100_200.jpg)
The Book and the Brotherhood is the 23rd novel of Iris Murdoch, first published in 1987. Considered by some critics to be among her best novels, is the story of a group of close friends living in England in the 1980s. The book of the title is a theoretical work on Marxism, supposed to have been written by David …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_2070700291-L_100_200.jpg)
The Sandcastle is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1957. It is the story of a middle-aged schoolmaster with political ambitions who meets a young painter, come to paint a former school headmaster's portrait.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0140126643-L_100_200.jpg)
The Message to the Planet is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1989, it was her twenty-fourth novel.
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0670102083-L_100_200.jpg)
An Accidental Man is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1971, it was her fourteenth novel. The complex story is set in London and involves a large number of characters, many of whom are related to each other by family or marriage. The "accidental man" is the hapless but charming Austin Gibson Grey, whose actions …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_0140031766-L_100_200.jpg)
Bruno, dying, obsessed with spiders and preoccupied with death and reconciliation, lies at the center of an intricate spider's web of relationships and passions: Bruno's estranged and grieving son Miles; Danby, Bruno's widowed son-in-law, consoling himself with the Adelaide the maid, one of Murdoch's finest comic …
![](/images/cover/.tmb/thumb_2070744949-L_100_200.jpg)
Jackson's Dilemma is a novel by Iris Murdoch, published in 1995. It was Murdoch's last novel; she died four years later, on 8 February 1999. In her final years, Murdoch suffered from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, one of the symptoms of which is a reduced vocabulary and decreased word fluency. Researchers at …