Fiona pracuje jako soudkyně Nejvyššího soudu a při svém mimořádném pracovním vytížení vnímá manželův zálet s mladší ženou, na který mu přijde, sice bolestně, ale zároveň na nějaká hluboká řešení prostě nezbývá čas.
V Británii o sobě dal Ian McEwan (nar. 1948) rázně vědět na přelomu sedmdesátých a osmdesátých let, kdy vydal dvě sbírky velice originálních, leckdy šokujících povídek a dva krátké romány (nebo spíše novely), Betonová zahrada a Cizinci ve městě.
On 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.
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Two old friends - Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge.
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 metamorph
**Number One Sunday Times Bestseller**Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, 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 syn
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. Time is running out. She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.
'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.
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 event
VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. '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.
Love and espionage in 1970s Britain: a riveting new novel from the bestselling author of Atonement and Enduring Love Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972.
