One hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a nuclear accident. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar and researcher, longs for the early 21st century as he chases the ghost of a poem written in 2014. When he stumbles across a clue ...
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One hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a nuclear accident. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar and researcher, longs for the early 21st century as he chases the ghost of a poem written in 2014. When he stumbles across a clue ...
"Both epic and intimate, the story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals: a deeply affecting novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution-from #1 bestselling author Ian McEwan. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the I...
"Kafka meets the world of Brexit in a bitingly funny 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 six...
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis 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...
Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is ...
"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. 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 inquisi...
In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Recounts the events of one Saturday in the life of Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug called Baxter. Baxter believes the surgeon has humiliated him, and visits the Perowne home that evening,...
The story centers around two newlyweds, Edward and Florence Mayhew both virgins who must struggle through their internal battle with sexual anxiety.
Eight-year-old Mark is sent to live with his cousin Henry and his family for a few weeks. Mark soon begins to suspect that all is not right with the seemingly innocent-looking Henry.
"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. 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 the...
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, ...
In 1962 England, Florence and Edward are challenged by the sexual and societal pressures of their time, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.