Ian McEwan

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his 3-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into …

The Booker Prize-winning contemporary morality tale—cleverly disguised as a comic novel—from the acclaimed author of Atonement. On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's …

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from …

General FictionLarge Print Edition*A Quality Paperback Book Club SelectionA sad, chilling, precise exploration of deranged love. starred, Kirkus ReviewsWill keep readers hooked. starred, Publishers WeeklyThe calm, organized life of Joe Rose is shattered one day when Joe takes part in a rescue effort to save a child in …

In Between the Sheets is the second collection of short stories by British writer Ian McEwan.