Short Story Collections

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement —a taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric collection of stories that are as horrifying as anything written by Clive Barker or Stephen King. Here is the collection that first brought Ian McEwan instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. These riveting 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 disturb but are crafted with a lyricism and intensity that compel us to confront our secret kinship with the horrifying. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons.

At once chilling and beguiling, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement and one of literature's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease, is "an acute psychologist of the ordinary mind" ( The New York Times Book Review). A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. Don’t miss Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons .

These three television plays were written between 1974 and 1979. Solid Geometry was banes by the BBC just before going into production and became a cause celèbre .

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

"Or Shall We Die", an oratorio commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, concerns the arms race and our future. Ian McEwan, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for his collection of short stories, "First Love, Last Rites" is also the author of "The Cement Garden".

This volume contains the stories from both of McEwan's previous collections: First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets . The former was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award.