This is a reading companion for Atonement by Ian McEwan. It is not intended to be a formal study guide. This guide relates to the popular Vintage edition of Atonement…

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard…

Twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnhams intelligence work offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence. But the opportunity turns to horror in the course of one terrible eveninga…

Charlie is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. He comes into money and buys Adam, one of the first synthetic humans. He and…

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…

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…

From the acclaimed author of Atonement comes a novel of remarkable depth and poignancy. Set in 1962, On Chesil Beach captures with understanding and compassion the innocence of a young…

The second collection of blazingly original short stories from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author Ian McEwan. A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim’s vengeful fantasies.