Books by Ian McEwan

**The Number One Sunday Times bestseller**A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Irish Times / Spectator / Sunday Times / The Times Book of the YearTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John.

Et elskende par bliver sat på en prøve, der går langt over deres forstand. Charlie driver gennem livet og holder sig langt væk fra et fuldtidsarbejde, men er forelsket i Miranda, en dygtig studerende der må leve med en frygtelig hemmelighed. Da Charlie en dag kommer til penge, køber han Adam, et af de første syntetiske mennesker, og designer – med Mirandas hjælp – hans personlighed. Det næsten fuldendte menneske, der kommer ud af dette eksperiment, er en smuk, stærk og klog mand. Det varer ikke længe, før de tre er viklet ind i et trekantsdrama, der kaster dem ud i store moralske problemer. Ian McEwans roman Maskiner som mig stiller spørgsmålet, om en maskine kan forstå menneskehjertet – eller om det er vores forståelse, der er mangelfuld.

Fiona Maye er en fremtrædende dommer ved den britiske High Court, hvor hun behandler sager vedrørende familieret. Hun er kendt for sin skarpe intelligens, præcision og indlevelsesevne. Men den faglige succes dækker over private sorger og ægteskabelige problemer. Det er en sorg for hende, at hun aldrig har fået børn, og nu truer en krise hendes ægteskab gennem tredive år. Samtidig står hun midt i en vigtig retssag: Af religiøse grunde nægter en køn syttenårig dreng ved navn Adam at tage imod en lægebehandling, der kan redde hans liv, og hans stærkt troende forældre støtter ham. Tiden er ved at løbe ud. Bør den sekulære domstol tilsidesætte dybfølte religiøse overbevisninger? Mens Fiona forsøger at finde frem til en afgørelse, besøger hun Adam på hospitalet – et møde, som vækker dybt begravede følelser i hende og hensætter drengen i et voldsomt sindsoprør. Hendes dom får skelsættende følger for dem begge to.

Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwanThat morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis.

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.

Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised...

From its breath-taking opening section, telling the events of a fateful summer's day in 1935, McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart, even as the master novelist's provocative twists of form dazzle the senses.

The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies.

Som barn mistede Jeremy begge sine forældre. I stedet kompenserede han for tabet ved at tilbringe så meget tid som muligt hos sine venners forældre. Som voksen er han levende optaget af familier. Og han får den idé, at han vil nedskrive sine svigerforældres erindringer for dem. Efterhånden går det op for ham, at deres særprægede ægteskab gennem alle årene har været tynget af en modbydelig episode, der for altid bragte afstand mellem dem. Det skete, da det unge par lige efter krigen var på bryllupsrejse i Italien og Frankrig, fulde af idealisme og tro på kommunismen som den ny verdensorden.

Lørdag begynder godt for den succesfulde læge og familiefar Henry Perowne, men sådan bliver det ikke ved. Et fly i brand over London, flere hundredetusind demonstranter i gaderne mod Irakkrigen og mødet med en sindsforstyrret mand ændrer tingene. Hvad stiller denne fredens mand op, når konflikten pludselig kommer så tæt på og begynder at true hans egen familie?

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Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony--who has a crush on Robbie-- is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested--and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever.Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love.In addition to the complete script, this Newmarket Shooting Script(R) book includes an exclusive introduction by screenwriter ChristopherHampton, a color photo section, and the complete cast and crew credits.

'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.

"I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal."In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family. Ian McEwan''s first novel, The Cement Garden, written in 1978, explores coming-of-age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a fourteen-year-old mind.David Aula and Jimmy Osborne''s stage adaptation approaches the horror of the story through the innocent eyes of children, and encourages an audience to remember the games, irreverence, and shadows of their youth: to remember and reinvent their sense of invincibility.The Cement Garden received its world premiere as part of Vault Festival Waterloo, on 28 January 2014.

The year is 1972, the Cold War is far from over and Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Sent on Operation Sweet Tooth - a highly secret undercover mission - she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one.

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster.

Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade.

Ian McEwan's mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man.

In the arid summer heat, four children - Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom - find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children's lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.

Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch'Only Ian McEwan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict CumberbatchOn a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily.

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.

Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventually finds himself in an adult body experiencing the adventure of falling in love.

Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon.