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Ian McEwan
Photo Credit: (c) Urszula Soltys 2016



Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

Books by Ian McEwan

The Daydreamer

Illustrated by Anthony Browne, THE DAYDREAMER takes the reader out of reality and into the dream world of 10 year old Peter Fortune.

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