Books like In guter Absicht by Iris Murdoch

Harry Potter is forced to leave Privet Drive and confront the Dark Lord, journeying to locate and destroy the remaining Horcruxes in a final battle that will determine the fate of magic.

A lonely orphan girl on the Yorkshire moors befriends a disabled cousin and unlocks the secrets of a hidden garden.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

A sweeping saga set on the Oregon coast, following the Stamper family's logging enterprise, labor struggles, and personal conflicts as they confront nature, unions, and internal divisions.

In "Last Orders," Graham Swift follows a lifelong friendship of post‑war men as they drive a fallen comrade’s ashes from London to the seaside, recalling war, family, and the bonds that shape their lives.

Turtle Alveston, a fourteen‑year‑old survivor of a painful home life, finds hope when she meets Jacob, a wholesome high‑school boy who invites her into a world beyond the wilderness and her abusive father.

Masterful satire of late‑1990s London, Martin Amis’s London Fields follows a self‑destroying protagonist who plans her own murder amid social decline and Y2K dread.

The novel follows metaphysician Marcus Vallar as he rises to prominence and then collapses, while the ordinary people around him grapple with his philosophical teachings and the uncanny phenomena he engenders.

A tale of friendship and community in winter in New England.

Collected essays by Iris Murdoch on ethics, aesthetics, and the influence of existentialist and mystical thinkers, offering insight into her literary philosophy and modern Platonism.

On the eve of their wedding, Edward and Marian are drawn into unexpected paths while their friends face strange choices; the charismatic manservant Jackson guides them toward light, yet confronts his own pivotal decisions.

A touching 19th‑century tale of a young Belgian boy, Nello, and his devoted dog, Patrasche, who endure poverty, hardship, and loyalty in a small village near Antwerp.

A diverse community gathers outside Imber Abbey, where an ancient bell symbolizes religion and mystery, drawing questions of faith, love, and forgiveness into the lives of its members.

A London‑and‑South‑France tale of two women—widowed Gertrude Openshaw and ex‑nun Anne Cavidge—whose lives intertwine with an eclectic circle of men and women, exploring themes of passion, faith, and interpersonal triangles.

An unofficial rose follows nine intertwined characters, each seeking love while navigating affection, lust, and disillusion, revealing how their actions constantly shape one another’s destinies.

A novel that explores the tension between desire and reality

286p. ; 18 cm

"Iris Murdoch's life - like her books - was full of extraordinary passions and profound relationships with some of the most inspiring and influential thinkers, artists, writers and poets of her time. During the war she pondered Aldous Huxley's doctrine that, for a writer, 'it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters,' and she later wrote that the person who might help her better herself 'must not distinguish between me and my work'. She was sometimes portrayed as a bourgeois grandee living an unworldly, detached intellectual life, inventing a fantastical alternative world for compensation; but much that was thought to be romance in her work turns out to be reality. 'Real life is so much odder than any book,' she wrote to a friend, and her life was as exciting and improbable as her fiction. Her novels are not just stylised comedies of manners with artificial complications, but reflect passionately lived experience, albeit wonderfully transmuted. Peter Conradi's biography returns the reader to her best work, through a quest for the living flesh-and-blood creature: the Irishwoman, the Communist-bohemian, the Treasury civil servant, the worker in Austrian refugee-camps, the RCA lecturer during the 1960s, the lifelong devotee of friendship conducted at a distancce and by letter, and the Buddhist-Christian mystic. It balances the formative years before the creative confusion of youth gave way to a greater stability, with an account of her maturity."--BOOK JACKET.

At the Connecticut shore, three generations of women weave a tale of love, loss, and enduring friendship, discovering that the ties that bind them are as deep and fragile as the waves that lap their home.

A Fairly Honourable Defeat follows the Foster couple as they prepare for a second‑decade anniversary while confronting moral questions about love, ageing, and society.