Solitary spinster Miss Roach creeps around a last opportunity for love with an American lieutenant in a cloying, blacked-out London suburb during WW2.

Elaine and Paul are in a rut; to start over, they set fire to their house. What follows is a vicious, recriminating, guilt-tinged battle which will have an unexpected victim.

With his bit of rough, Johnny, in prison, the upper-class narrator seeks consolation in his lower-class London in-laws and, especially, in Johnny's dog, who becomes a symbol of loss and vain hope.

Scarred by her father's errant behaviour, headstrong Lucy vows to set the world to rights - starting with her young, drifting midwestern husband.

Classic field study by two English sociologists in the leafy London suburb of Woodford. Survey of middle-class values, anxieties, hopes, dreams and lifestyles.

The very beginnings of suburban America. The Steckers debate the merits of town and country; German Joe has made a living in New York, but his wife Gurlie longs for the rural certainties of her youth.

Comic depiction of growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1970s, juxtaposing the deep conformity of the protagonist with expectations of his difference.

The suburbs of trailers, pick-ups and all-night bars depicted in Carver's unique, sparse prose.

Graphic novel trilogy, lovingly illustrated and heartfelt.

Polemical tract which argues for suburban sprawl on the basis that people like living there. But what will happen when the oil runs out?