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Ian McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born 21 June 1948) is a Booker Prize-winning English novelist and screenwriter.

McEwan's first published work was a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976. The Cement Garden (1978) and The Comfort of Strangers (1981) were his two earliest novels. The nature of these works caused him to be nicknamed "Ian Macabre."These were followed by three novels of some success in the 1980s and early 1990s.

His 1997 novel, Enduring Love, about the relationship between a science writer and a stalker, was extremely popular with critics, although it was not shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 1998, he was awarded the Booker Prize for his novel Amsterdam. His next novel, Atonement, received considerable acclaim; Time Magazine named it the best novel of 2002, and it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His next work, Saturday, follows an especially eventful day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon. Saturday won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 2005. His most recent novel, On Chesil Beach, was shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize. McEwan has also written a number of produced screenplays, a stage play, children's fiction, and an oratorio.

McEwan's most recent completed work is the libretto to an opera called For You composed by Michael Berkeley, which tells the story of a composer whose sexual and professional prowess have passed their peak. It is set to be performed in November 2008 by Music Theatre Wales.

McEwan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg, in 1999. He is also a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.

In 2005, he was the first recipient of the prestigious Herold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholar and Writers Program Award, granted by Dickinson College[7], in Carlisle, PA, USA, and in 2008, McEwan was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College, London, where he used to teach English literature.

Available Books by Ian McEwan

	Solar Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099549024 RRP: $19.95 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 compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having ...
	Atonement Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099552161 RRP: $12.95 On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia...
	On Chesil Beach Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099512790 RRP: $19.95 It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. ON CHESIL BEACH is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a ...
	Saturday Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099469681 RRP: $19.95 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...
	Rose Blanche Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099439509 RRP: $18.95 An important and unforgettable story, brilliantly re-told by Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan. Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. Like them, Rose observes all the changes going on around her which others choose to ignore. She watches as the streets of her small German town fill with soldiers. One day she sees a little boy e...
	Atonement Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099429791 RRP: $19.95 On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia wi...
	Black Dogs Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099277088 RRP: $19.95 In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. 'Black Dogs' is built around a brilliant short story, an encounter with two terrifying dogs by an English couple who are honeymooning just after the war in a French moun...
	Amsterdam Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099272779 RRP: $19.95 Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize Gathered at the North London funeral of Molly Lane - desirable, talented, dead at 46 of an unspecified, madness-inducing disease - are her unpopular widower George, a plutocratic publisher, and at least three of her lovers. Clive Linley is a successful but conservative composer. Vernon Halliday is the latest editor of 'the Judge'...then there is the Forei...
	The Innocent Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099277095 RRP: $19.95 Generous in scale, simple in its hideous impact - the sheer cleverness of this book is dazzling and only fully to be appreciated as you turn the last page. To call 'The Innocent' a spy novel would be like calling 'Lord of the Flies' a boy's adventure yarn . . . the plot crackles like thin ice with dread and suspense....
	Enduring Love Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099276586 RRP: $19.95 'Enduring Love' situates the conflict between science and relation in a context so original and startling, and at the same time so believable as to force you to recognise that the conflict lies in you. A gripping and brilliantly written account of how a disturbing personality can invade and damage the lives of two more or less normal people. Combines stomach-pit dread and almost unbearab...
	The Child In Time Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099755012 RRP: $19.95 Winner of the Whitebread Prize for Fiction. 'The Child in Time' is an extraordinary achievement in which form and content, theory and practice are so expertly and inseparably interwoven that the novel becomes an advertisement for, or proof of, its own thesis. Ian McEwan has written two collections of short stories, 'First Love', 'Last Rites' and 'In Between the Sheets...
	Comfort Of Strangers Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099754916 RRP: $19.95 The evils of power and the power of evil are transmitted by McEwan with a steely coolness as he tells the tale of Colin and Mary with all the skill of an accomplished torturer. As the tension between the characters becomes unbearable, McEwan so organises his narrative that, without insisting anything, every turn and glimpse is another tightening of the noose....

	Solar Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780307739537 RRP: $17.95 Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard is coasting through his professional life, making no real contribution since he won his award, while his fifth marriage is in danger due to his, and his wife's, infidelities; but he gets a chance at redemption when he is called on to save humanity from environmental disaster. Reprint. A best-selling novel....
	Solar Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385533416 RRP: $32.95 Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard is coasting through his professional life, making no real contribution since he won his award, while his fifth marriage is in danger due to his, and his wife's, infidelities; but he gets a chance at redemption when he is called on to save humanity from environmental disaster....
	Solar Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780739377789 RRP: $32.95 Nobel Prize-winning scientist Michael Beard is coasting through his professional life, making no real contribution since he won his award, while his fifth marriage is in danger due to his, and his wife's, infidelities, until he gets a chance at redemption when he is called on to save humanity from environmental disaster. (General fiction). Simultaneous....
	On Chesil Beach Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780307386175 RRP: $16.95 Recently married, a young couple--Florence, a talented musician and shy daughter of an aloof Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future, but cannot help but worry about their upcoming wedding night. Reprint. 200,000 first printing....
	Saturday Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781400076192 RRP: $17.95 A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident, an encounter that has savage consequences....
	Saturday Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385511803 RRP: $30.95 A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident, an encounter that has savage consequences....
	Atonement Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385721790 RRP: $17.95 The Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam creates a richly textured coming-of-age novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, as she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which tears her family apart and leads her on a lifelong search of truth and absolution. Reader's...
	Atonement Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385503952 RRP: $35.95 The Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam creates a richly textured novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, as she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which tears her family apart and leads her on a lifelong search of truth and absolution....
	The Daydreamer Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385498050 RRP: $14.95 An imaginative tenyearold boy, who is best understood by his family, recounts some of the adventures he has while daydreaming, in a novel by the Booker Prizewinning author of Amsterdam. Reprint. 10,000 first printing....
	Amsterdam Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385494243 RRP: $16.95 Two old friends, Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday, both former lovers of the late Molly Lane, meet to pay their last respects and make a pact that will have unforeseen consequences...
	The Child in Time Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385497527 RRP: $17.95 The abduction of his only child destroys Stephen Lewis' marriage and painfully forces him to look back on his own childhood...
	Black Dogs Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385494328 RRP: $16.95 The accomplished, award-winning English novelist tells the story of a American woman living in Berlin who experiences a dramatic reversal of her former life as a dutiful wife just as the Berlin Wall begins to fall. Reissue....
	Enduring Love Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385494144 RRP: $17.95 One of the most acclaimed contemporary English novelists follows a science writer into a crisis that eventually threatens his life, the consequence of a life-saving act that involves him with a desperate stranger. Reprint....
	The Innocent Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780385494335 RRP: $17.95 A newly repackaged literary thriller by the author of Amsterdam features a young man who, assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Berlin in the late 1980s, learns how easy it is to part with innocence. Reissue....
	In Between the Sheets, and Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780679749837 RRP: $16.95 McEwan employs the erotic and the unusual to explore the expanses of darkness within us all in this collection of seven stories that are at once comic, macabre, and sinister...
	The Comfort of Strangers Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780679749844 RRP: $16.95 While on holiday, a young couple meets the son of the local gentry and his wife and are drawn by sexual obsession into a nightmare of violence...
	First Love, Last Rites/Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780679750192 RRP: $15.95 Stories revolve around ordinary people who fall victim to or become perpetrators of discomfiting, humorous, and unnerving obsessions, compulsions, and fantasies...
	The Cement Garden Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780679750185 RRP: $16.95 When their mother dies, four children living in an isolated house in London find themselves without guidance for the entire summer...
	Atonement Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780973398465 RRP: $23.95 ...
	Atonement Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781557047991 RRP: $23.95 Includes the shooting script of the film, along with photographs, and complete cast and crew credits (p. 110-116)....
	Narrative Desire And Historical Reparations Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780415975414 RRP: $205.95 ...

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	Amsterdam Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099535133 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 successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet, The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had had other lovers...
	Atonement, Film Tie-In Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099507383 On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia wil...
	Enduring Love - Film Tie-In Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780099481249 Now a major motion picture! One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized 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&#...
	On Chesil Beach Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385522403 Recently married, a young couple--Florence, a talented musician and shy daughter of an aloof Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future, but cannot help but worry about their upcoming wedding night. By the author of Atonement. 200,000 first printing....
	On Chesil Beach Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780739327265 Recently married, a young couple--Florence, a talented musician and shy daughter of an aloof Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future, but cannot help but worry about their upcoming wedding night. By the author of Atonement. (General Fiction)...
	Saturday Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780224072991 'Saturday' is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults. What troubles him is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washingto...
	The Cement Garden Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780224043977 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. . THE CEMENT GARDEN, Ian McEwan's first novel, more than confirmed the talent for macabre invention and psychological power shown in his short story collections, FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES and IN BETWEEN THE SHEETS. It was ...
	The Child In Time Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780224052597 ...

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