Books by Ian McEwan

Portrait of Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most accomplished contemporary novelists, renowned for his precise prose and incisive exploration of moral complexity. His storytelling often balances psychological depth with sharp observation, drawing readers into intimate moments that reveal the tensions of modern life. From early works of unsettling intensity to later novels of broader political and emotional scope, McEwan's writing demonstrates a masterful command of tone and structure.

Across his celebrated career, McEwan has received numerous literary honours, and his books have become fixtures in reading groups and academic study alike. Whether examining the fragility of love, the consequences of choice, or the quiet reverberations of history, his fiction continues to challenge and captivate. Each novel offers both intellectual engagement and emotional resonance, marking him as a defining voice in contemporary British literature.

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  • Nutshell

    Vintage Publishing Nutshell

    15 in stock

    Book Synopsis**Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's best storytellers - 'a masterpiece' The TimesTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.'An astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master...' Daily TelegraphTrade ReviewAn astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master… Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a shocking tale of murder and treachery from one of the world’s master storytellers. * Daily Telegraph *A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly…Witty and gently tragic, this short, bewitching novel is an ode to humanity’s beauty, selfishness and inextinguishable longing. * Mail on Sunday *Ian McEwan’s embryonic spin on Hamlet is a virtuoso feat of wordplay … Virtuoso entertainment. * Observer *While the literary device of an unborn baby narrating a novel from the womb is hardly original… Ian McEwan employs it with aplomb... Here everything is tightly controlled and the tension ratchets up as our all-knowing unborn watches helplessly from his watery sack while the dastardly plan progresses through a series of nail-biting moments… The ending is beautifully contrived… The book is elegantly written with plenty of pungent, topical observations upon the world. * Daily Mail *At once playful and deadly serious, delightful and frustrating it is one of McEwan’s hardest to categorise works, and all the more interesting for it. * The Times *

    15 in stock

    £9.49

  • Nutshell

    Vintage Publishing Nutshell

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. 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.Trade ReviewAn astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master… Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a shocking tale of murder and treachery from one of the world’s master storytellers. * Daily Telegraph *A creative gamble that pays off brilliantly…Witty and gently tragic, this short, bewitching novel is an ode to humanity’s beauty, selfishness and inextinguishable longing. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *Ian McEwan’s embryonic spin on Hamlet is a virtuoso feat of wordplay … Virtuoso entertainment. -- Tim Adams * Observer *While the literary device of an unborn baby narrating a novel from the womb is hardly original… Ian McEwan employs it with aplomb... Here everything is tightly controlled and the tension ratchets up as our all-knowing unborn watches helplessly from his watery sack while the dastardly plan progresses through a series of nail-biting moments… The ending is beautifully contrived… The book is elegantly written with plenty of pungent, topical observations upon the world. -- John Harding * Daily Mail *At once playful and deadly serious, delightful and frustrating it is one of McEwan’s hardest to categorise works, and all the more interesting for it. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * The Times *

    15 in stock

    £7.99

  • The Children Act

    Vintage Publishing The Children Act

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    Book SynopsisFiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out.She visits the boy in hospital – an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.Trade ReviewCompulsively 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 *Classic McEwan… It’s a pleasure from start to finish, one not to be interrupted * Guardian *A powerful, humane novel * Evening Standard *One of the finest writers alive * Sunday Times *McEwan writes as beautifully and elegantly as ever, his prose quintessentially English in its restraint, one meticulously chosen word hinting at depths of emotion * Washington Post *A finely written, engaging read… Poignant, challenging and lyrical * Sunday Express *A class act by one of our finest novelists. -- Viv Groskop * Red *A compelling moral dilemma [with] a moving and heartfelt denouement. * Tatler *Shows McEwan as a master of fiction. -- Olivia Cole * GQ *It is one most extraordinary, powerful, moving reading experiences of my life. It is an utterly remarkable novel, delicately balanced, perfectly crafted, beautifully written. -- Alberto Manguel

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  • Science: Vintage Minis

    Vintage Publishing Science: Vintage Minis

    4 in stock

    Book Synopsis‘This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing. It is also an extended invitation to wonder, to pleasure’How far have we come in our understanding of the world around us? In this eye-opening collection, Ian McEwan looks back at the history of scientific discovery from Darwin to Dawkins as well as exploring, with brilliant originality, what a future with AI and climate change could hold for us. Selected from Solar, Enduring Love, Machines Like MeVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis 'Great Ideas' series:Religion by Karen ArmstrongArt by Simon SchamaTrade ReviewThey look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book * Stylist *Literature for the Twitter generation * Big Issue *

    4 in stock

    £6.93

  • Solar: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection

    Vintage Publishing Solar: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection

    7 in stock

    Book Synopsis'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. He now spends his days speaking for enormous fees and half-heartedly heading a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time, she's having the affair.When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity arises for Beard to simultaneously save his marriage and the world from environmental disaster.'Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining' Sunday Times'A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic' Daily Telegraph'A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet' Financial TimesVINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.Trade ReviewSavagely funny... Enormously entertaining * Sunday Times *A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic * Daily Telegraph *A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet * Financial Times *McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny * Mail on Sunday *Vivacious and sprawling, a beautifully and compellingly written novel * The Times *

    7 in stock

    £9.49

  • What We Can Know

    Vintage Publishing What We Can Know

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisIan McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of eighteen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

    15 in stock

    £18.70

  • Atonement

    Everyman Atonement

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisOn 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 the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. "From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”Trade ReviewHe is this country’s unrivalled literary giant … a fascinatingly strange, unique and gripping novel * Indepentent On Sunday *A brilliant and majestic fictional panorama. -- John Updike * The New Yorker *

    3 in stock

    £12.34

  • Klett Sprachen GmbH The Children Act

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £11.02

  • Klett Sprachen GmbH Machines Like Me

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £12.61

  • Klett Sprachen GmbH Atonement

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £12.75

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. The Daydreamer

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    £7.23

  • Reclam Philipp Jun. The Cement Garden

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £7.58

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Erkenntnis und Schnheit ber Wissenschaft

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £18.00

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Lektionen

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £27.20

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Was wir wissen können

    15 in stock

    15 in stock

    £23.80

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Zwischen den Laken

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £8.90

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Unschuldige

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    £12.35

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Schwarze Hunde

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Abbitte

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £13.50

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Saturday

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    £12.60

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Am Strand

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £12.35

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Letzter Sommertag

    3 in stock

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    3 in stock

    £12.00

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Solar

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £13.30

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Kindeswohl

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £12.60

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Nussschale

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £12.35

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Die Kakerlake

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £10.45

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Lektionen

    7 in stock

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    7 in stock

    £16.20

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Saturday

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £11.40

  • Diogenes Verlag AG Abbitte

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £14.25

  • Diesterweg Moritz Atonement. Camden Town Oberstufe Zusatzmaterial

    15 in stock

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    15 in stock

    £13.49

  • Editorial Anagrama Lecciones

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £23.06

  • Editorial Anagrama Primer Amor, Ultimos Ritos

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £12.40

  • Anagrama Operacion Dulce

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    1 in stock

    £15.10

  • Anagrama Chesil Beach

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    1 in stock

    £12.97

  • Anagrama Los Perros Negros

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £13.32

  • Anagrama El Inocente

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    1 in stock

    £14.19

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  • Anagrama Cascara de Nuez -V2*

    5 in stock

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    5 in stock

    £18.19

  • Editorial Anagrama S.A. Solar

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisMichael Beard es un físico que recibió hace años el Premio Nobel y desde entonces vive apoltronado en sus laureles. Tiene ahora cincuenta y pocos años y su quinto matrimonio está tocando a su fin porque Patrice, la quinta esposa, diecinueve años menor que él, descubrió su aventura con una matemática y reaccionó con una euforia inesperada. Se mudó a otra habitación y comenzó una relación con Rodney Tarpin, el constructor que les rehabilitaba la casa, veinte años menor que Beard, quien ahora sufre por la bella Patrice. Aunque quizá su dolor se deba a que desde hace años es sólo un burócrata, el director de un instituto para la investigación de las energías renovables que es poco más que un artilugio político. Entre los becarios del instituto se encuentra Tom Aldous, que tiene proyectos más ambiciosos. Y cuando una noche Tom conoce a Patrice, la combinación de adulterio en las clases ilustradas y esperpento científico deviene una comedia (no en vano esta novela ganó el Premio Wodehouse) de enredos, negra en el más puro estilo Hitchcock, con cadáver incluido. Y aquí y ahora, en este mundo en los umbrales del gran cambio climático, del temido calentamiento global...Nos retiene y deslumbra hasta la última página con su aguda percepción de la vida contemporánea, y su implacable suspense (P. Kemp, The Sunday Times).Las incitaciones a reflexionar sobre el cambio climático abundan, y nos apremian. La opción que ha tomado McEwan es tan sorprendente como elegante; en lugar de elegir el Apocalipsis, opta por la comicidad (Christopher Tyler, The Guardian).Una obra maestra de la sátira (Lorna Bradbury, The Telegraph).

    2 in stock

    £23.34

  • Editorial Anagrama Los Perros Negros

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    £9.35

  • Anagrama Sabado

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £20.03

  • Anagrama Cascara de Nuez

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    £17.66

  • Anagrama Maquinas Como Yo

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    £30.21

  • La cucaracha

    Anagrama, Editorial S.A. La cucaracha

    1 in stock

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    1 in stock

    £20.55

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