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The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: good-very good
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Soon to be on public television starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage o ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiotFiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactit ...Show more
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, and Fionn Whitehead. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiot Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family division. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exact ...Show more
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loat ...Show more
The Daydreamer (with colour Illustrations by Anthony Browne) by Ian McEwan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
'A classic' Financial TimesThe trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn't say much, like Peter Fortune, is that people are likely to think you are rather stupid or dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head, such as swapping bodies with a cat, or a baby; vanquishing the scho ...Show more
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret ...Show more