How do you make sense out of life? Some say that you can't and it's not worth the effort; just take things as they come. Still, most of us do make some effort to find order to our lives. We think up reasons,...

Picture, if you will, Jonathan Payne, probably the last person in the world you'd expect to be the lead character in anybody's novel, a jaded bookseller nearing the end of a wasted life which has been...

There are no reasons for unreasonable things. So the protagonists of this novel are told having found themselves setting out on an adventure that they really didn't plan. Like many people, Murdoch has...

Whereas Living with the Truth was set in the drab reality that is Jonathan Payne's life, its sequel, Stranger than Fiction, is set in the drab reality that is Jonathan's afterlife. He awakes to find himself...

This is an omnibus edition containing two novels: Living with the Truth and its sequel, Stranger than Fiction.Jonathan Payne is a jaded bookseller at the end of a wasted life which has been spent in a...