Ian McEwan

From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present, and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet. 2014 - A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate...

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a series of events at her family's country estate that she doesn't fully understand. From her vantage point, she sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden, watched by their childhood friend Robbie Turner, who has recently returned...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a mesmerising story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well...

Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me. Number One Sunday Times Bestseller In an alternative 1980s London, Machines Like Me unfolds in a world where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher is clinging to power, and Alan Turing has made breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Against this backdrop, we meet Charlie, a directionless man...

An important and unforgettable story. Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day, she sees a little...

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style for 2023, The Children Act is a brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker Prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling Ian McEwan. A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity, is called on to try an urgent...

Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Sweet Tooth is a story of love and espionage in 1970s Britain from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan. 'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning' Sunday Times The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over, and Serena Frome, in her final year at...

Atonement, a Booker Shortlisted bestseller, is now available in a beautiful hardback edition with a silk ribbon and sewn binding—an ideal gift. On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an unsettling scene: her sister Cecilia stripping off her clothes and plunging into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is...

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style for 2023, Enduring Love is a tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, multi-million copy bestselling Ian McEwan. AS FEATURED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS Discover the tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan. One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The...

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style for 2023, On Chesil Beach is a compact and devastating novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling Ian McEwan. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A warm treat of a read for the cold winter nights. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive...

Re-jacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, Saturday is a gripping novel centring around the London anti-war protest in 2003 from the Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. 'Dazzling... Profound and urgent' Observer 'A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence... Everyone should read Saturday' Financial Times Saturday,...

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence—Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as the editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty...

Nutshell: A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers - 'a masterpiece' The Times Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction...

In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The exhilarating and beautiful Sunday Times bestseller. 'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times 2014 - A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119 - The lowlands...

“I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to...

From 2014 to the year 2119, in a world submerged by rising seas, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going. A masterpiece and Ian McEwan's finest novel yet. 'One of the finest writers alive' Sunday Times 2014 - A great poem is read aloud...

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Atonement. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR "It gave me so much pleasure...

VINTAGE EARTH - Change the story. Novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm. Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He...

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his...

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan is a darkly satirical novella that blends the surreal with sharp political critique. Drawing inspiration from Franz Kafka's classic tale, The Metamorphosis, McEwan delivers a modern fable that examines the absurdities of political life. One morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, wakes from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic...

The Children Act by Ian McEwan is a profound and emotionally gripping tale that delves into the complexities of morality and the human spirit. Set in contemporary London, the novel introduces us to Fiona Maye, a distinguished and highly respected High Court judge. Her dedication to her career and meticulous attention to detail have earned her a reputation for both...