Ian McEwan Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Nel 2119: il mondo è sommerso, l'Europa è un paesaggio insulare, la libertà e la ricchezza del nostro presente sono un sogno lontano. Il letterato Thomas Metcalfe cerca una poesia perduta di fama mondiale. Il poeta Francis Blundy l'ha dedicata nel 2014 a sua moglie Vivien e l'ha recitata solo una volta. Tra le tracce lasciate dalla famosa coppia, Thomas scopre un amore segreto, ma anche un crimine. Ian McEwan delinea magistralmente un futuro in cui non tutto è perduto.

Het verhaal van Rolands leven tegen de achtergrond van de woelige Europese geschiedenis na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Ian McEwan betrachtet die Geschichte der Wissenschaft als faszinierende Saga, die intellektuellen Mut und Inspiration vereint. In brillanten Essays untersucht er das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Literatur sowie die Verbindung zu unserer menschlichen Natur, illustriert durch Figuren wie Darwin, Einstein und Turing.

Drie weken geleden was ik gewoon een schoolkind, nu ben ik detective en heb ik een baantje bij een theekraam. De negenjarige Jai woont in een naamloze stad in het noorden van India. Hij kijkt te veel realityshows over politie, denkt dat hij slimmer is dan zijn vriend Pari (ook al haalt die altijd hogere cijfers) en ziet zichzelf als een betere baas dan Faiz (terwijl Faiz degene is met een baan). Wanneer een jongen van hun school vermist wordt, besluit Jai de kennis die hij heeft opgedaan tijdens het kijken van Police Patrol in de praktijk te brengen. Met Pari en Faiz aan zijn zijde waagt Jai zich in de gevaarlijkste delen van de uitgestrekte Indiase stad: de bazaar na sluitingstijd en zelfs het laatste metrostation van de Paarse Lijn. Maar kinderen blijven verdwijnen en het drietal moet doodsbange ouders, een onverschillige politie en kwaadaardige djinns onder ogen zien om de waarheid aan het licht te brengen.

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Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions- what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

"Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy."--Publisher description.

Fin da ragazzi, Parker e Jocelyn hanno condiviso letture, progetti e ambizioni letterarie, forgiando un'amicizia destinata a durare. Le loro carriere hanno preso strade opposte: Jocelyn ha raggiunto un improvviso successo, mentre Parker ha vissuto un rapido declino, con una famiglia numerosa e un lavoro da insegnante, i suoi pochi libri ormai dimenticati. Nonostante le loro vite si siano drasticamente separate, continuano a considerarsi "una famiglia". Tuttavia, tutto cambia quando Parker trova il dattiloscritto dell'ultimo romanzo di Jocelyn nella sua casa. Leggendolo, si rende conto che è il migliore che Jocelyn abbia mai scritto e potrebbe garantirgli la posterità. La tentazione di appropriarsi di quell'opera diventa irresistibile. Ma cosa significa davvero essere "io" o "lui"? Secondo una prospettiva cara ai romanzieri, l'io è un "racconto incessantemente riscritto", una "storia che raccontiamo a noi stessi". Così, se la biografia si sdoppia - con lo scrittore di successo contrapposto all'everyman travolto dal quotidiano - anche il racconto dell'io può sdoppiarsi, permettendo che tra le pagine di un unico romanzo si consumi il crimine perfetto.

Compulsively readable... McEwan's prose keeps its cutting edge and his books are the ones the reading public still crave... A masterly balance between research and imagination... One feels an immediate pleasure in returning to prose of uncommon clarity, unshowiness and control The Times

"À l'étroit dans le ventre de ma mère, alors qu'il ne reste plus que quelques semaines avant mon entrée dans le monde, je veille. J'entends tout. Un complot se trame contre mon père. Ma mère et son amant veulent se débarrasser de lui. La belle, si belle Trudy préfère à mon père, John, poète talentueux en mal de reconnaissance et qui pourtant l'aime à la folie, cet ignare de Claude. Et voilà que j'apprends que Claude n'est autre que mon oncle : le frère de mon père. Un crime passionnel doublé d'un fratricide qui me fera peut-être voir le jour en prison, orphelin pour toujours ! Je dois les en empêcher." Il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume d'Angleterre du XXIe siècle? Après L'intérêt de l'enfant, Ian McEwan n'en finit pas de surprendre et compose ici, dans un bref roman à l'intensité remarquable, une brillante réécriture d'Hamlet in utero.

Serena Frome is de knappe dochter van een anglicaanse bisschop. In haar laatste jaar aan de Universiteit van Cambridge wordt ze door de geheime dienst geworven en ingezet voor Operatie Suikertand, een geheime missie binnen de literaire wereld. Serena, dwangmatig lezer, wordt verliefd op een veelbelovende jonge schrijver. Kan ze haar leven undercover blijven volhouden? Een meesterlijk boek over liefde, list en bedrog en een spel met de werkelijkheid.

Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong? With astonishing compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon’s life. Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life’s most difficult decisions.

She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.

All'età di tredici anni, in un caldo giorno d'estate del 1935, Briony Tallis sente di essere diventata una scrittrice. La sera stessa, accusando di un crimine odioso un innocente, commette l'errore che la segnerà per tutta la vita. Eppure la giornata era iniziata sotto i migliori auspici. C'era la commedia da mettere in scena, i cugini arrivati dal nord per trascorrere qualche tempo in casa Tallis, e da Londra era atteso l'amatissimo fratello Leon con un amico, industriale della cioccolata. Soltanto la sorella maggiore Cecilia impensieriva Briony, con quel suo misterioso rapporto che la legava a Robbie Turner, il figlio della loro donna di servizio. Tutti i personaggi entrano in scena ma, nella commedia della vita, non ci sono prove prima della recita e ogni gesto assume un carattere definitivo. Presto, sarà troppo tardi per fermare la macchina dell'ingiustizia e la guerra arriverà a spazzare via il vecchio mondo con le sue raffinate ipocrisie.

Weinige auteurs van de Engelse literatuur zijn momenteel zo relevant als Ian McEwan. Gedurende zijn veertigjarige carrière heeft hij opmerkelijke werken van de hedendaagse literatuur geproduceerd, zoals Amsterdam en Reparatie. Zijn boeken vallen op door de precisie van de proza, een sfeer van spanning en verrassende wendingen die de lezer tot het einde uitdagen. In deze roman staat de verdediging van de wetenschappelijke rationaliteit tegenover religieus fundamentalisme centraal. De protagonist, Fiona Maye, is een rechter van het Hooggerechtshof, gespecialiseerd in familierecht, en staat bekend om haar “goddelijke onpartijdigheid en duivelse intelligentie”. Haar professionele succes staat in contrast met persoonlijke mislukkingen, zoals spijt over het ontbreken van kinderen en een huwelijk in crisis. Na de vertrek van haar man behandelt Fiona de zaak van Adam Henry, een zeventienjarige jongen met leukemie die een bloedtransfusie nodig heeft, maar wiens familie, Jehovah's Getuigen, zich verzet tegen de ingreep. Fiona wordt onverwacht geraakt door Adam, een beleefde en gevoelige jongeman, wat haar dwingt na te denken over haar leven en emoties.

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase, but the fight goes on, especially in the cultural sphere. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent on a 'secret mission' which brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one. McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty story of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self.

On the hottest day of summer in 1934, Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is her childhood friend, Robbie Turner. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have changed for ever: Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed an unimagined boundary, and Briony will have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, 'Solar' is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. It is a story of one man's greed and self-deception

The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Genome" and "The Red Queen" offers a provocative case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change--cultural evolution--will inevitably increase human prosperity.

Иэн Макьюэн – один из авторов «правящего триумвирата» современной британской прозы (наряду с Джулианом Барнсом и Мартином Эмисом). Его «Амстердам» получил Букеровскую премию. Русский перевод романа стал интеллектуальным бестселлером, а работа Виктора Голышева была отмечена российской премией «Малый Букер», в первый и единственный раз присужденной именно за перевод. Двое друзей – преуспевающий главный редактор популярной ежедневной газеты и знаменитый композитор, работающий над «Симфонией тысячелетия», – заключают соглашение об эвтаназии: если один из них впадет в состояние беспамятства и перестанет себя контролировать, то другой обязуется его убить…

A powerful drama of passion, obsession and tragedy from one of Britain's greatest living writers.

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Il 15 febbraio 2003, un sabato, Henry Perowne si sveglia nel cuore della notte in preda a un'inspiegabile euforia. Si avvicina alla finestra e osserva per qualche istante lo spettacolo della piazza su cui si affaccia casa sua. Improvvisamente si rende conto che il cielo notturno è attraversato da una scia di fuoco. Aereo in fiamme, terrorismo, fantasmi dell'Undici Settembre: è questo forse l'attacco su Londra che tutti aspettano, specialmente ora che il governo Blair appoggia l'invasione americana dell'Iraq? Henry Perowne è un uomo soddisfatto della propria vita. Neurochirurgo in un ospedale londinese, ama il suo lavoro, ama sua moglie, un avvocato affermato, ha due figli adorabili, la figlia sta per pubblicare la sua prima raccolta di poesie e il figlio è un chitarrista blues emergente. Cosa può minacciare una felicità conquistata con tanto lavoro e tenacia? Quello che doveva essere un sabato libero dal lavoro, dopo una settimana massacrante, diventa per Henry una strada in salita, irta di ostacoli. In programma c'era una partita a squash, una visita all'anziana madre, le prove di un concerto di Theo, il figlio chitarrista, e poi la cena a base di zuppa di pesce che è la specialità culinaria di Henry - una cena in cui si doveva celebrare il ritorno a casa di Daisy, la figlia che vive a Parigi, dopo sei mesi di assenza. Ma sulla levigata superficie della giornata da dedicare a tempo libero e famiglia parte un'incrinatura. Un banale incidente d'auto si trasforma nella minaccia che può distruggere tutto ciò che Henry ha di più caro. Sullo sfondo c'è una città, Londra, invasa dai manifestanti contro la guerra. Nell'arco della stessa giornata Henry passa dal ruolo di colomba a quello di falco, per motivi spesso indipendenti dalla questione irachena. La sua mente diventa un campo di gioco in cui si fronteggiano idee opposte in una partita all'ultimo respiro. Sfera pubblica e privata si fondono, nessuno può più fingere che gli avvenimenti mondiali non lo riguardino. Ovunque Henry posi il suo sguardo, schermi televisivi gli elencano le priorità della sua ansia, e non perdono un'occasione per alimentarla.

Het is 1935. Briony en Cecilia Tallis, twee zussen uit een rijke Engelse familie, brengen met hun familie de zomer door op een landgoed. Het lijkt een normale hete zomerdag te gaan worden, maar als Briony haar zus en hun vriend Robbie bespiedt bij de fontein van het landhuis krijgt dit voorval door haar verbeeldingskracht grote gevolgen. Als later op de dag een misdaad gepleegd wordt beschuldigt ze Robbie hiervan. Dit heeft desastreuze gevolgen en verandert het leven van alledrie voorgoed.

Op 15 februari 2003 wordt neurochirurg Henry Perowne wakker en ziet uit zijn slaapkamerraam een vliegtuig met brandende motor boven de stad. Angstgevoelens komen bij hem op: nadert een nieuwe terreuraanval die volgens de regeringsleiders, sinds 11 september 2001, onvermijdelijk is? De angst krijgt aan het einde van de dag een andere invulling als het kwaad zich zijn huis binnendringt.

Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Until the tide of the war turns and soldiers in different uniforms stream in from the East, and Rose and the imprisoned children disappear for ever .

Sous la canicule qui frappe l'Angleterre en ce mois d'août 1935, la jeune Briony a trouvé sa vocation : elle sera romancière. Finsi les contes de fées et les mélodrames de l'enfance. Du haut de ses treize ans, elle voit dans le roman un moyen de déchiffrer le monde. Mais lorsqu'elle surprend sa grande sœur Cecilia avec Robbie, fils de domestique, sa réaction naïve aux désirs des adultes va provoquer une tragédie. Trois vies basculent et divergent, pour ne se recroiser que cinq ans plus tard, dans le chaos de la guerre, entre la déroute de Dunkerque et les prémices du Blitz. La brutalité du réel va faire mûrir Briony. Mais est-il encore temps d'expier un crime d'enfance ? Prolongeant une grande tradition anglaise, celle de Lawrence et du Messager, tout en s'interrogeant sur les pouvoirs et les limites du romancier, Ian McEwan restitue, avec une égale maîtrise, les frémissements d'une conscience et les rapports de classes, la splendeur indifférente de la nature et les tourments d'une Histoire aveugle aux individus. Peintre admirable de la fragilité du bonheur et de la douleur du souvenir, il nous livre, avec Expiation, son roman le plus abouti.

In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Ian McEwan, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide will deal with McEwan's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Travel is no longer a luxury and not always an entertainment. Many journeys need to be made‹to get home or away from an enemy, to work, to find a last resting place, or because someone has told you to go. This issue of Granta is about such journeys; you might call it necessary travel writing, with Decca Aitkenhead: looking for cheap sex and drugs; Manuel Bauer: a child¹s escape over the Himalayas; Isabel Hilton: what have they done to Beijing?; Ian Jack: the train crash that stopped Britain; Ryszrd Kapuscinski: in the forests of Cameroon; Ian McEwan: on the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940; John Ryle: the last Emperor makes his last journey; Dayanita Singh: inside a sanctuary for girls in Benares; Simon Winchester: how Britain and the US made a people homeless; plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin at home, revealed by James Campbell. Granta is the paperback magazine of new writing. Every issue features the best new fiction, reportage, memoir and photography, generally collected under a theme.

Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.

Nezničitelná láska, román z roku 1997, pojednává o obyčejných lidech v neobyčejných situacích. Vše začíná tragickou nehodou v balonu, jíž se Joe Rose – nosná postava příběhu – marně snaží zabránit. V této chvíli se setkává s Jedem Parrym, jenž se stává třetím v podivném lidském trojúhelníku – Rose, jeho žena Clarissa a Parry. Příběh vypráví, jak obyčejný člověk, lapený do sítě bludů jiného člověka, může být přiveden až na okraj šílenství a vraždy.

Enttäuscht von Los Angeles, beschließt ein englischer Schriftsteller, Abschied zu feiern. Er trifft sich mit seinen Freunden – einer feministischen Buchhändlerin, einem frustrierten Schürzenjäger und einem Partyzubehörverleiher – zu ein paar Drinks. Was sich als gemütlicher Abend anläßt, wird schon bald zum Alptraum.90

Les voies qui mènent à la découverte de la sexualité sont multiples, comme le prouvent ces histoires dont les héros sont souvent des enfants. Mais l'innocence enfantine peut cacher des réserves de dépravation insoupçonnées, et du besoin d'amour naît parfois la pire perversité. Toutes ces nouvelles parlent d'amour, de son excès ou de son absence, du désir et de ses frustrations, de ses fantasmes, de ses délires sadiques ou masochistes... Le mal rôde sous le masque de la banale réalité quotidienne ; même les papillons à l'occasion deviennent sinistres... Insolites et insolentes, provocatrices, hautement originales, les nouvelles de Ian McEwan surprennent toujours, choquent parfois ; elles représentent un tour de force de concision et d'humour noir.

Begins on a windy summer's day in the Chilterns when the calm, organised life of Joe Rose is shattered by a ballooning accident. What happens is shocking and tragic, but strangely inco-sequential. The consequences come after, for that fatal accident brings Joe together briefly, with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them.

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 ) f rom 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 Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could have foreseen…Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons .

Nell'inverno del '55 Berlino è ancora devastata nel corpo e nel cuore. È il tempo della guerra fredda, il tempo delle spie. Nella vita di Leonard Marnharm, il giovane tecnico inglese protagonista di questo romanzo, il "tunnel di Berlino" rappresenterà il luogo, reale e metaforico, di un viaggio apparentemente senza fine negli abissi dell'esistenza. L'amore di Leonard per la tedesca Maria ha dapprima un sapore dolcissimo, ma c'è ancora nell'aria come un morbo latente di violenza, di disfacimento, che a poco a poco invade i pensieri, i gesti, le azioni quotidiane. Nel momento cruciale della sua esistenza, Leonard appare sopraffatto da una forza e da un orrore che lo trascendono.

Berlino, inverno 1955: il tempo della guerra fredda, il tempo delle spie. Nelle viscere della città devastata si lavora all'"Operazione Oro", lo scavo di un tunnel al confine con la zona russa, allo scopo di immettersi sulle frequenze telefoniche sovietiche ed intercettare i messaggi operativi: un progetto ardito e pericoloso a cui collaborano la Cia e l'M16, i due servizi segreti alleati ed al tempo stesso rivali. In un simile clima di tensione e sospetto prende avvio la vicenda di Leonard, timido tecnico inglese coinvolto nel progetto spionistico, e Maria, donna tedesca, esuberante e desiderosa di vivere: una struggente storia d'amore e di iniziazione ai sensi ed alle emozioni. Un genere classico, la spy - story, reinventato da McEwan in un crescendo di orrore che a poco a poco dilaga sino all'esplodere della tragedia, ineluttabile e cruenta come un mito greco.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Zu Ian McEwans großen literarischen Qualitäten zählt sein hohes Einfühlungsvermögen in die Psyche von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Davon legt auch »The Daydreamer« Zeugnis ab: Der zehnjährige Peter Fortune, »a difficult child«, lebt in seiner eigenen Welt der Fantasie. Er besitzt die Fähigkeit, sich und seine Umgebung zu verwandeln. Das führt zu den abenteuerlichsten Verwicklungen und erstaunlichsten »Lösungen«. Ein Buch für Kinder und für Erwachsene; eine Erinnerung an die eigene Kindheit und eine Besinnung auf das, was daraus geworden ist. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2 (GER)

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 for ever.

Leonard Marnham is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. His intelligence work--tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow--offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. Leonard's relationship with Maria Eckdorf, an enigmatic and beautiful West Berliner, likewise promises to loosen the bonds of his ordinary life. But the promise turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening--a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed.

Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is briefly distracted. What ensues causes Lewis to spiral into a bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and possibly time itself. Winner of the 1987 Whitbread Prize for Fiction.

Hochsommer, die alte Stadt ist von Touristen überschwemmt. Auch das Liebespaar Colin und Mary, das kein Liebespaar mehr ist, macht hier Urlaub. Sie machen sich sorgfältig zurecht für ihren Dinnerspaziergang durch die Stadt; und dann lauert im Labyrinth der beklemmend engen Gassen ein Minotaurus auf sie. Die Kanäle haben Gegenströmungen, die Lagune ungeahnte Tiefen.

"Or Shall We Die", an oratorio commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, concerns the arms race and our future. Ian McEwan, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his collection of short stories, "First Love, Last Rites" is also the author of "The Cement Garden".

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no bounds. Away on a holiday together in a nameless city, they get lost one evening in a labyrinth of streets and canals. They happen upon Robert, a stranger with a dark history, who takes them to a bar and ushers them down into a subterranean land of violence and obsession. ‘Haunting and compelling’ The Times ‘No reader will begin The Comfort of Strangers and fail to finish it; a black magician is at work’ New York Times

The first novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam. In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.

A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites" and is the author of "The Comfort of Strangers" and "A Child in Time".

Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness.