Ian McEwan
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‘It’s about how large-scale international events penetrate the lives of ordinary individuals’ – Ian McEwan chats about his new novel Lessons
Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons, the new novel from Ian McEwan, is a chronicle for our times – a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one ordinary man.
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The Cockroach – Ian McEwan’s new Brexit satire pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work
In Ian McEwan’s new novella The Cockroach the main character, Jim Sams, undergo a metamorphosis from an average nobody to the most powerful man in Britain when he wakes up to find himself the Prime Minister.
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Read an extract from Ian McEwan’s provocative and thrilling new novel Machines Like Me
‘While his batteries began to charge, I made us coffee then scrolled through the 470-page online handbook. Its language was mostly clear and precise. But Adam was created across different agencies and in places the instructions had the charm of a nonsense poem. “Unreveal upside of B347k vest to gain carefree emoticon with motherboard output to attenuate mood-swing penumbra.”‘