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In a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller. 2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message. 2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those...

Brought to you by Penguin. The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is...

Año 2119. Las cosas no van muy bien en el planeta. Hay amplias zonas inundadas como consecuencia de un catastrófico accidente nuclear. Y los habitantes de este futuro distópico miran con fascinación los albores del siglo XXI, a sus ojos una época de esplendor cultural. Así lo considera...

Fiona Maye, juge spécialisée en droit de la famille, est passionnée par son travail. Elle en délaisse son mari, surtout depuis l'affaire Adam Henry. Cet adolescent de dix-sept ans est atteint de leucémie, mais les croyances religieuses de ses parents interdisent toute transfusion sanguine. Les médecins s'en sont remis à la cour. Après avoir entendu les deux parties, Fiona se rend à l'hôpital. Mais la rencontre avec Adam s'avère troublante et, indécise, la magistrate peine à rendre son jugement.

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 for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency.

Brought to you by Penguin. This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to...

Brought to you by Penguin. On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most...

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...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. 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...

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.

This book examines Ian McEwan’s ability to discern in his writing sentiments that easily resonate with musicians, explores the value of music in exhibiting McEwan’s views on the world, and presents his perspective on religion’s role within society. The majority of characters in Ian...

BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025 The Atlantic’s Top 10 The Standard’s Best 2025 Titles to Buy for Book Lovers Named a Best...

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...

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 windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

Am heißesten Tag im Sommer 1935 wird die dreizehnjährige Briony Tallis im Landhaus ihrer Familie Zeuge eines eigenartigen Geschehens. In der Schwüle des Tages sind alle wie verwandelt: Was treibt die ältere Schwester mit Robbie Turner am Brunnen, was in einer dunklen Ecke der Bibliothek? Und wie ist jenes Wort in dem Brief zu verstehen, den sie nicht öffnen sollte? Mit Briony geht die Phantasie durch. Noch am selben Abend ist das Leben aller Beteiligten für immer verändert...

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...

Serena Frome ist schön, klug und schließt gerade ihr Mathematik-Studium in Cambridge ab - eine ideale Rekrutin für den MI5, den britischen Inlandsgeheimdienst. Man schreibt das Jahr 1972. Der Kalte Krieg ist noch lange nicht vorbei, und auch die Sphäre der Kultur ist ein umkämpftes Schlachtfeld: Der MI5 will Schriftsteller und Intellektuelle fördern, deren politische Haltung der Staatsmacht genehm ist. Die Operation trägt den Codenamen "Honig".

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. Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in...