Enduring Love By Ian McEwan
Enduring Love - A Novel By Ian McEwan
"Enduring Love" is a novel by award winning author Ian McEwan, first published in 1997 On an ordinary spring day, while he is enjoying a picnic with his girlfriend, Clarissa, the calm, organised life of science writer Joe Rose is turned upside down due to the repercussions of a tragic accident. Joe and Clarissa's intimate picnic is disrupted when they notice a hot-air balloon out of control and being tossed around by strong winds. To his horror, Joe realises that a young boy is trapped in t...

The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden - a novel by Ian McEwan
The Cement Garden is a novel written by award-winning British author, Ian McEwan. It was originally published in 1978. The Cement Garden is a dark tale of childhood and lost innocence... The plot of The Cement Garden centres around a group of four children, Tom, Sue, Jack and Julie aged between 6 and 16. Their father dies of a heart attack whilst laying a cement path in the family's garden and soon afterwards, their mother becomes ill. Fearing that she may have to go into hospital, she enc...

Atonement By Ian McEwan
Atonement is a novel by award winning writer, Ian McEwan, first published in 2001. The plot of Atonement follows the life of Briony Tallis, from naive teenager to elderly woman. In 1935, Briony is 13 years old and the youngest child of a rich English family, She's an aspiring writer and is at that difficult stage of adolescence where she is leaving the world of childhood and taking her first tentative steps towards adulthood. Based on events she sees but doesn't understand, she becomes the ...

Amsterdam By Ian McEwan
Amsterdam: a novel by Ian McEwan
Amsterdam is a novel by multi-award winning author Ian McEwan, first published in 1998. The plot of Amsterdam follows two old friends:, Clive, a composer and Vernon, a newspaper editor, who attend the funeral of a woman who had been a friend and a lover to both men in the past. Her death from a sudden debilitating disease has a profound effect upon them and they make a mutual pact, the outcome of which, neither could possibly anticipate... Amsterdam won the Booker Prize in 1998

On Chesil Beach By Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach - A Novel By Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach is a novel by multi-award winning author, Ian McEwan first published in 2007. Set in the early 1960s, On Chesil Beach explores the relationship and interaction of the main characters, newlywed couple Edward and Florence, as they prepare to consummate their marriage in the days before the "sexual revolution". On Chesil Beach was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize in 2007.

Black Dogs By Ian McEwan
Black Dogs is a novel by multi-award winning British author Ian McEwan, first published in 1992. In 1946, a young couple, Bernard and June, 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 evil so terrifying, it alters their lives and the lives of their descendents. Black Dogs was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1992.

The Child In Time By Ian McEwan
The Child In Time is Ian McEwan's third novel, first published in 1987. The Child In Time deals with the tragic theme of child abduction and it's effect on the lives of the child's parents. Stephen Lewis, a children's book author, takes his three year-old daughter Kate on a routine Saturday morning shopping trip to the supermarket. At the checkout, Stephen's attention is distracted and Kate disappears... Ian McEwan takes readers on a journey of lives devastated by the disappearance of a ch...

Ian McEwan - British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, And Screenwriter
Ian McEwan - Award Winning Author And Screenwriter
Ian McEwan has been writing fiction since the 1970s and has written many bestsellers and received numerous literary awards and glowing critical acclaim. It is difficult to sum up Ian McEwan's writing...a few words and phrases spring to mind...bold, imaginative, frequently dark, unafraid to explore "taboo" subjects, compelling, sometimes shocking, intelligent, gripping...he writes like a surgeon at work, steadily stripping away layer after familiar layer of even the most ordinary and everyday...

Saturday By Ian McEwan
Saturday is a novel by multi-award winning author, Ian McEwan, first published in 2005. Set in London against the background of the 2003 public demonstration against the invasion of Iraq, Saturday follows a day in the life of a 48-year-old British neurosurgeon called Henry Perowne. Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005.

The Comfort Of Strangers By Ian McEwan
The Comfort Of Strangers - A Novel By Ian McEwan
The Comfort Of Strangers is Ian McEwan's second novel and was first published in 1981. A bored couple journey to an un-named city in search of excitement. There they meet an enigmatic stranger who draws them into his world and in so doing, entangles them in a web from which there can be no escape... The Comfort Of Strangers was shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1981.