In the arid summer heat, four children - Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom - find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children's lives twist...
Eines Tages wird für Stephen und Julie der schlimmste Alptraum aller Eltern Wirklichkeit: ihre dreijährige Tochter verschwindet spurlos. Ein Roman über eine Welt, in der Bettler Lizenzen haben und Eltern darüber aufgeklärt werden,...
Ein Kindertraum wird Wirklichkeit: Papa ist tot, Mama stirbt und wird, damit keiner was merkt, einzementiert, und die vier Kinder - zwei Mädchen und zwei Jungen zwischen 6 und 16 - haben das große Haus in den großen Ferien für sich....
Die Abgründe und die Macht der Leidenschaft und der Phantasie: An einem heißen Tag im Sommer 1935 spielt die dreizehnjährige Briony Tallis Schicksal und verändert dadurch für immer das Leben dreier Menschen.
Die gesamte Familie mittels einer Zaubercreme zum Verschwinden bringen, das wäre doch was, denkt sich Peter Glück - ein wenig aus Langeweile, ein wenig aus Trotz. Oder wie wäre es, einen Tag lang das Leben des Katers der Familie zu füh...
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence:...
When Rose sees a little boy trying to escape from the back of a truck, only to be captured and shoved back in, she decides to follow the truck. At a desolate place out of town she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric...
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them - somethin...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A s ymphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from the acclaimed Bo...
Vintage paperback edition of this novel universally acclaimed as Ian McEwan's finest work to date - telling a beatifully evoked tale of love, betrayal, and ultimately, the eponymous atonement. "He is this country's unrivalled literary giant..a...
"On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane, who has died of a degenerative disease. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before...
One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them - somethin...
On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children's books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything is changed....
A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object of one of his victim's vengeful fantasies. A millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress â passive, yet beautiful â but the union soon becomes a nightmare...
Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the next begins. Cartwheeling through these transformations, Peter eventual...
In this "irresistibly readable" ( New York Review of Books ) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a...