“mcewan ian”

'Easily his most enjoyable book-McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache' David Profumo, Daily Telegraph On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside acrematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linleyand Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the d... 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

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

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 fro... 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

'Spooky-wonderful' Observer The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. StephenLewis,asuccessful author of children's books, takeshisthree-year-olddaughter on a routine Saturday morning trip tothesupermarket. Whilewaiting in line, his attention is distracted andhisdaughter iskidnapped. Just like... More

McEwan's bestselling novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness, is brought gloriously to life in a new film starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, and Vanessa Redgrave, scheduled for release in theaters on December 7, 2007.On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Ta... More

In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most hu... More

The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his sec... More