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...

A reversion from Picador, new in Vintage paperback. von McEwan, Ian

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...

'Fierce contemporaneity, an acrobat imagination, social comment, sardonic wit . . . the peculiar sub-culture of cult religion is a natural for Banks, and Luskentyrianism is a fine creation' The TimesA little knowledge can be a very...

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...

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987...

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987...

Als Familienrichterin beschäftigt sich Fiona Maye beruflich häufig mit Trennungs- und Scheidungsfällen: Jetzt ist sie plötzlich selbst betroffen. Aber immer wieder landen auch kompliziertere Fälle auf ihrem Tisch, die sie von ihren...

Es ist das Jahr 1935, und die 13-jährige Briony Tallis hat ein Theaterstück für ihren älteren Bruder und ihre jungen Cousins geschrieben, die zu Besuch auf dem großen englischen Landsitz der Tallis sind. Doch das Stück wird erst...

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987...

The engrossing, satirical and very funny new novel from Ian McEwan, finally out in paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage...

Machines Like Me von McEwan, Ian