Liz Jensen Books in Order

Hazel Stevenson suspects her gynecologist husband of infidelity and becomes entangled in questions about reproductive experimentation. As concerns about their son intensify, this dark comedy explores genetic manipulation, religious fervor, and the instability of family life.

A mysterious rainfall leaves Britain facing widespread infertility, with primates increasingly treated as substitute children. Veterinarian Bobby Sullivan's troubles unfold alongside a Victorian taxidermist's story, linking two eras through questions about animals, evolution, and human survival.

Atlantica, an artificial island sustained by waste recycling, promises an orderly consumer paradise. Petty criminal Harvey Kidd's account of life there exposes the tensions beneath its polished surface, challenging a social system built on consumption and control.

Gloria, now living in a care home, is pressed to revisit memories of wartime Bristol. Her recollections of factory work, an American pilot, and surviving the Blitz reveal troubling questions about desire, guilt, and buried family history.

Nine-year-old Louis Drax falls from a cliff during a family picnic and enters a coma. While his father disappears and his mother struggles, Dr Pascal Dannachet investigates a patient whose hidden perspective may explain the apparent accident.

Charlotte and her companion discover a time machine while cleaning a Copenhagen house in 1897. Their arrival in modern London turns an escape from poverty into a comic encounter with unfamiliar technology, altered expectations, and romantic possibilities.

Recovering from a serious accident, psychologist Gabrielle Fox treats a troubled teenager who claims to foresee natural disasters. When Bethany's predictions start coming true, Gabrielle and a physicist confront the possibility of catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

Anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a timber industry scandal in Taiwan as children around the world begin attacking their families. His stepson's increasingly strange behavior makes the emerging pattern personal, challenging Hesketh's confidence in rational explanations.