A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress - passive, yet beautiful - but the union soon becomes a nightmare of jealousy and...

A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction of love and war, class, childhood and England, that explores shame...

Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his...

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story...

A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his collection of short stories entitled First Love, Last Rites and is the author of The Comfort of Strangers and A Child in...

Dr. Michael Beards best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned institutions, and halfheartedly heads an initiative tackling global warming. Can a...

With extraordinary insight and tenderness, this 1987 Whitbread Award-winning novel takes readers into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child.

Ten-year-old Peter can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating; only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies...