Solar

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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; Machines Like Me; and Lessons. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

"Savagely funny... Enormously entertaining...a stellar performance" Sunday Times "A stunningly accomplished work, possibly his best yet...both funny and serious, light and dark, morally engaged and ironically detached" Financial Times "A satirical masterpiece...it will come to be regarded as a classic" -- Lorna Bradbury Daily Telegraph "Wonderfully enjoyable... He shows a side to himself as a writer - a puckishness, a broadness of humour, an extravagance of style - that we haven't seen before" -- Sam Leith Spectator "McEwan has succeeded in producing a novel that is both profoundly serious and hilariously funny" Mail on Sunday