Ian McEwan

Brilliant and utterly enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, this beautiful hardcover edition of the bestselling "tour de force" (The New York Times) from the Booker Prize-winning author is a profound--and profoundly moving--exploration of shame and forgiveness and the difficulty of absolution. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyOn the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life. In each of his novels Ian McEwan has brilliantly drawn his reader into the intimate lives and situations of his characters. But never before has he worked with so large a canvas: in Atonement he takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London's World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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. 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.”

“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 â?? a highly secret undercover mission â?? she meets Tom Haley, a promising young writer. To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage â?? trust no one.

England i 1972. Serena Frome, den smukke datter af en anglikansk biskop, bliver rekrutteret til efterretningsvæsenet i sit sidste år på Cambridge. Den kulturelle kolde krig er stadig i fuld gang, og landet er ved at gå op i sømmene på grund af strejker og terrorisme. Serena sendes ud på en ”hemmelig mission”, der fører hende ind i litterære miljøer, hvor hun møder den lovende unge forfatter Tom Haley. Først elsker hun hans noveller, senere bliver hun forelsket i forfatteren. Kan hun bevare fiktionen om sit hemmelige liv? For at svare på dette spørgsmål må Serena bryde spionens første bud: Du må aldrig stole på nogen. McEwan imponerer med sin mesterlige fortællekunst i denne elegante og vittige historie om forræderi og intriger, kærlighed og den kunstige identitet.

Det var menat att bli en romantisk picknick när vetenskapsjournalisten Joe Rose och hans fru, Keatsforskaren Clarissa, återförenades efter sex veckor ifrån varandra. I stället inträffar en händelse som drastiskt förändrar alla de närvarandes liv. En luftballong som slitit sig riskerar att driva iväg med en liten pojke som enda passagerare. Fem män förenas i sina försök att hindra den från att lyfta. Joes relation till Jed Perry, en av männen på platsen, omkullkastar hela hans tillvaro. Plötsligt är kärleken till Clarissa, hans starka tro på förnuftet och allt annat som han ansåg vara oföränderligt i stället hotat.

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.

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.

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.

Das Schlimmste am Heiraten ist die Hochzeitsnacht. Zumindest für Edward und Florence, 1962 im prüden England. Begierde und Befangenheit, Anziehung und Angst sind miteinander im Widerstreit in der Hochzeitssuite mit Blick aufs Meer. Die Nacht verändert das Schicksal der Liebenden - für immer.

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple's wedding night. "No one now writing in English surpasses or even matches McEwan's accomplishment." --The Washington Post Book World It is 1962, and Florence and Edward are celebrating their wedding in a hotel on the Dorset coast. Yet as they dine, the expectation of their marital duties become overwhelming. Unbeknownst to them both, the decisions they make this night will resonate throughout their lives. With exquisite prose, Ian McEwan creates in On Chesil Beach a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

Året er 1962. Florence er datter av en forretningsmann og en Oxford-akademiker og er en meget talentfull fiolinist. Hun er full av drømmer: om den karrieren hun skal gjøre som konsertpianist, og om det perfekte livet hun og Edward skal skape. Edward er en ung og flink historiestudent. De møtte hverandre tilfeldig, og han overrasket henne da han faktisk fridde. Edward er vokst opp på landet utenfor Oxford. Moren hans har fått en hjerneskade etter en ulykke, og faren har strevd med å holde hverdagen sammen. Edward har lengtet etter å komme vekk og inn i større sammenhenger. I London har han funnet det spennende livet, og der har han truffet og forelsket seg i den følsomme og sjenerte Florence. Som elsker ham tilbake. Livet hans er helt forandret. Ekteskapet deres skal bli lykkelig, det er de enige om. Men først er det bryllup, og så kommer bryllupsnatten. En roman om møtet mellom to unge mennesker og om hvordan uuttalte ord og ikke-realiserte handlinger kan forandre to liv i løpet av uendelig kort tid.'There is a fairy-tale quality to the book, in that everything that follows seems inevitable. The minute currents of tension that change a conversation and a life are so crucial to McEwan's method that it would be unfair to give away every last turn in his narrative.' Tim Adams, The Observer, April 2007