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Ian McEwan

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Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

McEwan's works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times P
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Limited Edition Sweet Tooth

The London Review Bookshop is offering a special opportunity to purchase a limited first edition of Sweet Tooth, signed before publication by the author and published in association with Jonathan Cape. The edition comprises 100 copies, seventy-five of which have been quarterbound in Harmatan Yellow 30 fine leather with letterpress patterned sides on Mohawk Loop Ginger paper, numbered 1 to 75,
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Atonement

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On Chesil Beach

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The Children Act

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Saturday

3.64 avg rating — 71,863 ratings — published 2005 — 133 editions
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Nutshell

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Amsterdam

3.46 avg rating — 57,236 ratings — published 1998 — 156 editions
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Sweet Tooth

3.44 avg rating — 51,470 ratings — published 2012 — 87 editions
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Enduring Love

3.65 avg rating — 46,197 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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The Cement Garden

3.54 avg rating — 33,691 ratings — published 1978 — 117 editions
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Machines like Me

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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
Ian McEwan, Atonement

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
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“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
Ian McEwan, Atonement

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