Patrick McGrath

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His fiction is principally characterised by the first person unreliable narrator, and recurring subject matter in his work includes mental illness, repressed homosexuality and adulterous relationships.

His novel "Martha Peake" won the Premio Flaiano Prize in Italy.

Novels

*"The Grotesque" (1989) (filmed by John-Paul Davidson in 1995 — see "The Grotesque", aka "Grave Indiscretion" or "Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets")
*"Spider" (1990) (filmed by David Cronenberg in 2001 — see "Spider")
*"Dr Haggard's Disease" (1993)
*"Asylum" (1996) (filmed by David Mackenzie in 2005 — see "Asylum")
*"Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution" (2000)
*"Port Mungo" (2004)
*"Trauma (novel)|Trauma" (2008)

Other works

*"Blood and Water and Other Tales" (1989) (short-story collection)
*"Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now" (2005) (linked short stories)

External links

* [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=588 Bloomsbury author information: Patrick McGrath]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2356062.htm] Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, 5 September 2008 [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040622/MCGRATH22/TPEntertainment/TopStories Ray Conlogue: "Tales of Madness"] (from "The Globe and Mail" [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Patrick+McGrath%22+%22The+Globe+and+Mail%22&btnG=Search] )
* [http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/Patrick+McGrath?opendocument A brief description of his novels]
* [http://palimpsest.org.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=245 Online discussion of McGrath's work]
* [http://wiredforbooks.org/patrickmcgrath/ 1991 audio interview with Patrick McGrath at Wired for Books.org] by Don Swaim
* [http://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_7.html mp3 of Patrick McGrath reading his text 'Spike Rising' (3:28)] published at Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine