Clare Chambers books

Complete list of books by Clare Chambers, including her acclaimed literary novels like Small Pleasures and Shy Creatures, plus academic contributions to the Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy series.

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition 2014 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism 2014 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion 2015 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being 2015 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination 2016 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information 2016 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Biodiversity 2016 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind 2016 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism 2017 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Virtue Epistemology 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology 2018 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Emergence 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism 2019 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Emotion 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill and Expertise 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Agency 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Modality 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought 2020 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Europe 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Logical Empiricism 2021 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Agency 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Friendship 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Propositions 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition 2022 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness 2023 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy 2023 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility 2023 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence 2023 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Phenomenology of Mindfulness 2023 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Properties 2023 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism 2024 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology 2024 Buy
Emotion Theory 2024 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory 2024 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion 2024 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement 2024 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods 2024 Buy
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games 2025 Buy

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Uncertain Terms 1993 Buy
Back Trouble 1994 Buy
Learning To Swim 1998 Buy
A Dry Spell 2000 Buy
In A Good Light 2004 Buy
The Editor’s Wife 2007 Buy
Bright Girls 2009 Buy
Burning Secrets 2011 Buy
Small Pleasures 2021 Buy
Shy Creatures 2024 Buy

Clare Chambers is a British author who has been writing literary fiction since 1993. Her early novels, starting with Uncertain Terms, established her as a careful observer of domestic life and human relationships. After a decade-long gap between Burning Secrets (2011) and Small Pleasures (2021), she returned to wide acclaim. Small Pleasures, set in 1950s suburban London, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and became a word-of-mouth hit among book clubs.

Her most recent novel, Shy Creatures (2024), continues in the same vein of sharply drawn characters and understated storytelling. Chambers has a gift for finding drama in the everyday, and her prose is precise without being showy. In addition to her fiction, she has contributed to the Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy series as an editor and academic, reflecting her interests in political philosophy and social justice.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Clare Chambers written?

Clare Chambers has written 95 books across two series.

What was Clare Chambers's first book?

Clare Chambers’s first book is Uncertain Terms, published in 1993.

What is Clare Chambers best known for?

Clare Chambers is best known for her novel Small Pleasures (2021), which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her follow-up, Shy Creatures (2024), was also widely praised. She has been publishing literary fiction since 1993 and has built a reputation for quiet, finely observed stories about ordinary lives.

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