Ian Russell McEwan is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, The Times featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 19 in its list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture".
On their wedding night in 1962, two virgins, burdened by expectations and anxiety, navigate intimacy on Chesil Beach, leading to a single, unspoken moment that changes their lives forever.
On a single Saturday, a contented neurosurgeon's ordinary London day off unravels into a terrifying confrontation with a disturbed young man, forcing him to use his medical knowledge to protect his family amidst a city on the brink of war.
A young woman, recruited by MI5 to secretly influence the literary world during the Cold War, finds her mission complicated by an unexpected love for the writer she's tasked to manipulate.
After a shared glance during a tragic ballooning accident, a science journalist's perfect life with his lover unravels as he becomes the target of an obsessive stranger's terrifying and relentless delusion of love.
Amidst the sweltering heat and the decaying secrets of their isolated home, four orphaned siblings descend into a disturbing, self-made world where the lines between innocence and depravity blur, all to keep their parents' deaths a secret.
A flabby, unfaithful Nobel laureate, whose personal life is as messy as the climate he aims to save, finds a chance at redemption and scientific recognition amid marital chaos and global warming.
As the Berlin Wall crumbles, a son-in-law unearths the four-decade-old, terrifying encounter that fractured his in-laws' marriage, revealing how a single moment of evil can echo through a lifetime and across a continent.
A quiet ten-year-old boy's vivid imagination transports him into a bizarre and disturbing dream world where he swaps bodies with cats and babies, and makes his family disappear with vanishing cream.
