“ian mcewan”

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... More

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 'I cannot remember the last time I read anovel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very firstpage' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized lifeis shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose re... More

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE'I cannot remember the last time I read a novel so beautifully written or utterly compelling form the very first page' Bill Bryson, Sunday Times One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose ... More

The new novel by one of Britain's finest writers Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man- a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a ... More

Film tie-in edition On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down... More

On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By ... More

'A brilliant performance-There's an assured and terribly macabre depravity about Ian McEwan's short stories-as if some of the characters from early Angus Wilson had been painted by Francis Bacon' Observer Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can aris... More

'Haunting and compelling' The Times 'As the best young writer on this island, McEwan's evocations of feeling and place and his analyses of mood and relationship remain haunting and compelling' Andrew Sinclair, THE TIMES 'As always, McEwan manages his own idiom with remarkable grace and inventiveness... More

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come… On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from ... More