Ian McEwan

In 1935 England, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, and she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which leads her on a lifelong search for truth and absolution.

A Novel

Atonement

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Trudy 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.

Nutshell

A highly respected London judge hides behind her professional accomplishments her decision to separate from a husband who wants an open marriage, a loss that challenges her beliefs throughout a case involving parents whose faith forbids a life-saving transfusion for their son. 150,000 first printing.

The Children Act

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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 synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions- what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

Machines Like Me

Set in Fitzrovia, central London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, as a large demonstration is taking place against the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saturday is a novel about one day in post-9/11 London. The protagonist, Henry Perowne, a 48-year-old neurosurgeon, has planned a series of errands and pleasures, culminating in a family dinner in the evening. As he goes about his day, he ponders the meaning of the protest and the problems that inspired it; however, the day is disrupted by an encounter with a violent, troubled man.

a novel

Saturday

ON CHESIL BEACH.

In the affairs of his dead wife, a British publisher discovers compromising pictures of the foreign secretary who was her lover. An opportunity for revenge on both the political and personal level.

Amsterdam

The Cement Garden (Vintage Blue)

Britain, 1972. Operation Sweet Tooth: Serena Frome, a bishop's daughter now turned spy, is sent on a secret mission to charm Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintian the fiction of her undercover life? Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage... Trust no one. -- Cover.

Sweet Tooth

Lessons

Enduring Love

The comfort of strangers

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. 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.

Solar

The Child in Time

Stories revolve around ordinary people who fall victim to or become perpetrators of discomfiting, humorous, and unnerving obsessions, compulsions, and fantasies

First Love, Last Rites

In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories

The Innocent is a startlingly prescient novel from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life. The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening – a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. 'The plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense' Mail on Sunday

The Innocent

Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan That 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. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.

The Cockroach

En la gran casa de campo de la familia Tallis, la madre se ha encerrado en su habitación con migraña, y el señor Tallis, un importante funcionario, está, como casi siempre, en Londres. Briony, la hija menor, de trece años, desesperada por ser adulta y ya herida por la literatura, ha escrito una obra de teatro para agasajar a su hermano Leon, que ha termina­do sus exámenes en la universidad y hoy vuelve a casa con un amigo. Cecilia, la mayor de los Tallis, también ha regresado hace unos días de Cambridge, donde no ha obtenido las altas notas que esperaba. Quien sí lo ha hecho, en cambio, es Robbie Turner, el brillante hijo de la criada de los Tallis y protegido de la familia, que paga sus estudios. Es el día más caluroso del verano de 1935, y las vidas de los habitantes de la mansión parecen deslizarse con apacible elegancia. Pero si el lec­tor ha aguzado el oído ya habrá percibido unas sutiles notas disonantes, y comienza a esperar el instante en que el gusano que habita en la de­liciosa manzana asome la cabeza. ¿Por dónde lo hará? Hay una curiosa tensión entre Cecilia y Robbie. Y otra situación potencialmente peli­grosa: la hermana de la señora Tallis ha abandonado a su marido, se ha marchado a París con otro hombre y ha enviado a su hija Lola, una nín­fula quinceañera, sabia y seductora, a casa de sus tíos. Y la ferozmente imaginativa Briony ve a Cecilia que sale empapada de una fuente, vestida solamente con su ropa interior, mientras Robbie la mira...

Expiación

Anthony Browne

Simplified Chinese edition of The Daydreamer by the Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan. In Simplified Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

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