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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. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.

New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have inspired sweeping critical acclaim and won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize for Amsterdam and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. With Saturday, McEwan has crafted perhaps his most unique achievement to date.

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...

One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must preserve their terrible secret.

Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts.

The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.

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, Leonard uses his...

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...

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 the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her...

New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has won the Booker Prize, Whitbread Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his masterfully accomplished fiction. The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets of Venice and frequently lose their way. When they are accosted by a man with a strange and alluring story to tell, they soon become entwined in a fantasy of violence and erotic obsession.

Acostumbrada a evaluar las vidas de los demás en sus encrucijadas más complejas, Fiona Maye se encuentra de golpe con que su propia existencia no arroja el saldo que desearía: su irreprochable trayectoria como jueza del Tribunal Superior especializada en derecho de familia ha ido arrinconando la idea de formar una propia, y su marido, Jack, acaba de pedirle educadamente que le permita tener, al borde de la sesentena, una primera y última aventura: una de nombre Melanie.

Nel maggio del 2119 Thomas Metcalfe, studioso di letteratura del periodo 1990-2030, si reca per l'ennesima volta alla biblioteca Bodleiana per consultarne gli archivi, a lui arcinoti, nel tentativo di scovare qualche scampolo di informazione inedita sull'oggetto dei suoi interessi, la fantomatica Corona per Vivien del grande poeta Francis Blundy, mai ritrovata.

Molly Lane ha muerto a los cuarenta y seis años de edad. Era una mujer muy libre, muy seductora, y en su entierro se encuentran presentes los cuatro hombres más importantes de su vida: Clive Linley, músico famoso; Vernon Halliday, periodista y director de uno de los grandes periódicos del país; George Lane, su poderoso y multimillonario marido, y Julian Garmony, un notorio político de derechas, actual ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y candidato a primer ministro.

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A...

Im Jahr 2119: Die Welt ist überschwemmt, Europa eine Insellandschaft, Freiheit und Reichtum unserer Gegenwart – ein ferner Traum. Der Literaturwissenschaftler Thomas Metcalfe sucht ein verschollenes Gedicht von Weltrang. Der Dichter Francis Blundy hat es 2014 seiner Frau Vivien gewidmet und nur ein einziges Mal vorgetragen. In all den Spuren, die das berühmte Paar hinterlassen hat, stößt Thomas auf eine geheime Liebe, aber auch auf ein Verbrechen. Ian McEwan entwirft meisterhaft eine zukünftige Welt, in der nicht alles verloren ist.

Brought to you by Penguin. 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 events of the...

Michael Beard es un físico que recibió hace años el Premio Nobel por un descubrimiento que en los medios científicos se conoce como la Combinación Beard-Einstein -y aquí comienza la feroz, irresistible ironía de McEwan, porque "combinación" implica también simbiosis, confusión-, y desde entonces se ha limitado a vivir apoltronado en sus laureles. Beard tiene ahora cincuenta y pocos años, y se encuentra en el tramo final de su quinto matrimonio, un final que no se parece en nada a los de sus cuatro uniones anteriores, menos emocionales y más convencionales.

Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. 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...