Ian McEwan
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Amsterdam
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 12, 2011
- Language: English
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3.45(42195 ratings)
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prizewinning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
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- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: August 15, 2003
- Language: English
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3.93(456467 ratings)
Ian McEwan has received prestigious awards and international praise for his novels, including Enduring Love. In Atonement, three children lose their innocence–as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935–and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England’s priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper’s son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia’s hyperimaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. And as chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the guilt of which she shall carry throughout her life.
... Read moreBlack Dogs
- By: Ian McEwan
- Length: 2588 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 23, 2008
- Language: English
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3.45(12105 ratings)
Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Booker Prize, Ian McEwan is one of the most highly regarded contemporary authors in the English language. A fictional memoir set in late 1980s Europe, Black Dogs contemplates individuals responding to vast impersonal forces. Orphaned at the age of eight, Jeremy finds the course of his life transient and groundless until he marries and begins writing a memoir of his wife’s estranged parents.
... Read moreEnduring Love
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 16, 2003
- Language: English
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3.64(35400 ratings)
Ian McEwan has earned international acclaim for his writing and is considered one of England’s best contemporary novelists. In Enduring Love, he sets a tale of obsession and desperation spinning amidst one man’s comfortable British world. On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon. Running to help, Joe is joined by other bystanders. But from that fateful day, one of them, Jed Parry, will begin to stalk Joe. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe’s life. Perfectly capturing the moments when a familiar world begins to shift out of balance, this first-person narrative traces Joe’s growing unease and frustration. As Joe watches his marriage, his profession, and his character dissolve, Enduring Love fills with psychological tension and emotional suspense.
... Read moreFirst Love, Last Rites
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 28, 2014
- Language: English
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3.64(4933 ratings)
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 adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. These tales are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King, but they are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying.
... Read moreIn Between the Sheets
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 22, 2013
- Language: English
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3.31(3046 ratings)
One of literary fiction’s most compelling voices, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has crafted masterful depictions of the human condition in classics such as Amsterdam and Atonement. The seven stories composing In Between the Sheets cast a magical spell around audiences, veiling the mundane in an ethereal mist that serves to reveal powerful truths.
... Read moreLessons
- By: Ian McEwan
- Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 13, 2022
- Language: English
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4.07(3790 ratings)
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. He is two thousand miles from his mother’s protective love, stranded at an unusual
boarding school, when his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
Twenty-five years later, Roland’s wife mysteriously vanishes, and he finds himself alone with their baby son. He is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence. As the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, he
begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life.
From the Suez and Cuban Missile crises and the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace
through every possible means–literature, travel, friendship, drugs, sex, and politics. A profound love is cut tragically short. Then, in his final years, he finds love again in another form. His journey raises important questions. Can we take
full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past?
Epic, mesmerizing, and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times–apowerful meditation on history and contingency through the prism of one man’s lifetime.
... Read moreMachines Like Me
- By: Ian McEwan
- Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 23, 2019
- Language: English
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3.59(16259 ratings)
New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever-a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.
... Read moreNutshell
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 13, 2016
- Language: English
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3.68(28158 ratings)
From the bestselling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things.
... Read moreOn Chesil Beach
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time
It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite.
Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwan–a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.
... Read moreSaturday
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 11, 2008
- Language: English
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3.63(61310 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan’s novels have won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. Saturday further proves The New Republic’s claim that McEwan is “one of the most gifted literary storytellers alive.” Neurosurgeon Henry Perowne enjoys life immensely and considers himself fortunate to love the woman he’s married to. But on this day, a chance encounter will turns his life upside-down.
... Read moreSolar
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 02, 2010
- Language: English
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3.27(22147 ratings)
Universally acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest novelists, Ian McEwan is a Booker Prize-winning, best-selling literary master. He displays a fresh facet of his considerable talent in Solar, a satirical novel rife with blistering humor. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to reinvigorate his career and possibly save humankind from the growing threat of global warming.
... Read moreSweet Tooth
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 13, 2012
- Language: English
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3.43(38343 ratings)
Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England’s intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers’ politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the operation.
... Read moreThe Cement Garden
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 04, 2008
- Language: English
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3.55(21416 ratings)
One of the world’s most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A tour de force of stunning power, The Cement Garden is a beautiful yet disturbing look at the psychology of childhood. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose-but they must preserve a terrible secret.
... Read moreThe Child in Time
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 23, 2008
- Language: English
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3.59(9504 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan is a Booker and Whitbread Prize winner. In this powerful tour de force, two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate. The Chicago Tribune raves, “Luminous, haunting, restrained…cuts to the core of human existence.”
... Read moreThe Children Act
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 09, 2014
- Language: English
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3.72(52122 ratings)
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child’s welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona’s professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah’s Witnesses. But Jack doesn’t leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case-as well as her crumbling marriage-tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.
... Read moreThe Cockroach
- By: Ian McEwan
- Length: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 08, 2019
- Language: English
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3.28(4722 ratings)
A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan’s Brexit-era take on Kafka’s Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain–and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.
... Read moreThe Comfort of Strangers
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: July 18, 2008
- Language: English
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3.41(12010 ratings)
New York Times best-selling author, Ian McEwan has won the Booker Prize, Whitbread Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his masterfully accomplished fiction. The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets of Venice and frequently lose their way. When they are accosted by a man with a strange and alluring story to tell, they soon become entwined in a fantasy of violence and erotic obsession.
... Read moreThe Daydreamer
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 06, 2008
- Language: English
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3.67(3093 ratings)
Internationally best-selling author and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan presents his first book for children-The Daydreamer. Peter Fortune is unlike most kids his age. In fact, he’s different from everybody else in the world. Peter has the amazing ability to make his daydreams come true. A captivating narration from Simon Prebble brings McEwan’s imaginative and adventurous story to vivid life for listeners of all ages.
... Read moreThe Innocent
- By: Ian McEwan
- Narrator: Ian McEwan
- Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 16, 2003
- Language: English
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3.71(8040 ratings)
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard’s new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
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