Ian McEwan

"On May 20th 2119 I took the overnight ferry from Port Marlborough and arrived in the late afternoon at the small quay near Maentwrog-under-Sea that serves the Bodleian Snowdonia library..."

A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England....

Both epic and intimate, the story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals: a deeply affecting novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution from the best-selling author of Atonement....

Neurosurgeon Henry Perowne enjoys life immensely and considers himself fortunate to love the woman he's married to....

In an alternative 1980s London, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life, 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....

On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever....

Two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate....

In Atonement, three children lose their innocence...

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....

Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature....

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....

On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon....

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....

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was....

The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella....

Internationally best-selling author and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan presents his first book for children, The Daydreamer....

Florence is a talented musician who dreams of the perfect life she will create with Edward. But she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact....

War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure....

A tour de force of stunning power, The Cement Garden is a beautiful yet disturbing look at the psychology of childhood....

Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law....