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Ian McEwan was born on 21
June 1948 in Aldershot, England. He studied at the University of Sussex,
where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970. He received
his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006, he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Saturday and his novel On Chesil Beach was named Galaxy Book of the Year at the 2008 British Book Awards where McEwan was also named Reader's Digest Author of the Year. McEwan lives in London and is currently writing a new novel. His most recently published work is For You, a libretto. |
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Help for Students! Click Here to view books about Ian McEwan and his novels, including critical editions and A-Level guides to Atonement and Enduring Love. Recent News Ryan Roberts, editor. Available from the University Press of Mississippi, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or from a variety of Independent Booksellers. On Chesil Beach Visit your local independent bookshop to order Ian McEwan's books, or purchase them online via Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Borders, Nan A. Talese, Powell's, Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Random House Canada, Random House Australia, localbookshops.co.uk, Waterstone's, or from a variety of Independent Booksellers. Order a copy online via Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, BN.com, or from a variety of quality Independent Booksellers. New Essay on McEwan Berthold Schoene. 'Families against the World: Ian McEwan.' The Cosmopolitan Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. 37-65.
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Solar is an engrossing and satirical novel which focuses on climate change and will be published on 18 March 2010. This story of one mans ambitions and self-deceptions is a stylish new work by one of the words greatest living writers.
Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing 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. An inveterate philanderer, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beards professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster. Dan Franklin, Publisher, comments: Solar is a novel about one of the most serious threats to our world global warming but is also very, very funny. It shows a fresh side to Ian McEwans work, that hes a comic writer of genius. Visit your local independent bookshop to order Ian McEwan's books, or purchase them online via Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Borders, Nan A. Talese, Powell's, Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Random House Canada, Random House Australia, localbookshops.co.uk, Waterstone's, or from a variety of Independent Booksellers. Pim, Keiron. "McEwan's Novel Take on Climate Change." Eastern Daily Press Books, 3 August 2009 [McEwan discusses his next novel, expected to be published in 2010].
The first ten students who email the correct answers will be sent a copy of the guide. Please send an email with your answers to: The competition ends when the tenth book has been given
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Purchase online from Continuum, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, BN.com, or a wide selection of high-quality Independent Booksellers.
As the first performance draws near, the maestro is suddenly awoken to the chaos, and as Charles struggles to regain control of his life, a terrible tragedy begins to unfold. "For You" is a beautifully wrought and compelling libretto - It is Ian McEwan at his very best. Order a copy online via Vintage, Amazon.co.uk, or from a variety of quality Independent Booksellers.
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| Novels: The Cement Garden The Comfort of Strangers The Child in Time The Innocent Black Dogs |
| Enduring Love Amsterdam Atonement Saturday On Chesil Beach Solar |
| Stories: First Love, Last Rites In Between the Sheets |
| Children's Fiction: Rose Blanche The Daydreamer |
| Screenplays: The Imitation Game & Other Plays The Ploughman's Lunch Soursweet |
| Oratorio / Libretto: Or Shall We Die? For You |
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