Philip Tew is Professor of Post-1900 English Literature at Brunel University, West London

Prologue
1. Exploring Craceland
2. Changing communities: Continent (1986) & The Gift of Stones (1988)
3. Parables of distress: Arcadia (1992) & Signals of Distress (1994)
4. Death, belief and nature: Quarantine (1997) & Being Dead (1999)
5. Excess and the uncanny: The Devil's Larder (2001), & Six, [Genesis] (2003)
Addendum: The Pesthouse (2007)

Philip Tew's study is the first extended critical examination of Crace's oeuvre and is based on extensive interviews with the novelist, including discussions of his work from his first worldwide bestseller Continent (1986) up to The Pesthouse (2007).