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On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. 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 pri ...Show more
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
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 from Ian Mc ...Show more
Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan, Roberto Innocenti
Category: Children's Fiction
Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little bo ...Show more
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair Condition. Well read. Yellowing,foxing and marks to pages. Creased spine. 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 be ...Show more
Science by Ian McEwan
Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Solar by Ian McEwan
Category: Audio
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive woma ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'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. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
"Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive wom ...Show more
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Atonement and Enduring Love comes 'A web of spying, subterfuge, deceit and betrayal... Acute, witty...winningly cunning? Sunday TimesThe year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final ...Show more
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. " Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of th ...Show more
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
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.
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction
Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow ...Show more