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Michael Beard es un físico que recibió hace años el Premio Nobel por un descubrimiento que en los medios científicos se conoce como la Combinación Beard-Einstein -y aquí comienza la feroz, irresistible ironía de McEwan, porque "combinación" implica también simbiosis, confusión-, y desde entonces se ha limitado a vivir apoltronado en sus laureles. Beard tiene ahora cincuenta y pocos años, y se encuentra en el tramo final de su quinto matrimonio, un final que no se parece en nada a los de sus cuatro uniones anteriores, menos emocionales y más convencionales.

Brought to you by Penguin. This new audio edition of Ian McEwan’s beloved modern classic is narrated by Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Harriet Walter, who starred as Emily Tallis in the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of Atonement. Her recent credits range from The Crown to...

Brought to you by Penguin. The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is...

Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed...

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author! A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an...

Brought to you by Penguin. Black Dogs is a dark and brooding masterpiece from Booker-prize winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. In 1946, June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they had planned an idyllic holiday, but in...

Brought to you by Penguin. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the...

Figlio del capitano Robert Baines, autoritario veterano della Seconda guerra mondiale ora di stanza in Nord Africa, e di sua moglie Rosalind, Roland fatica a capire perché a soli undici anni gli tocchi lasciare le pietre calde e la pazza libertà di Libia, e il fianco tiepido di sua madre, per affrontare un'istruzione rigorosa e solitaria nella fredda Inghilterra.

Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger...

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...

Im Jahr 2119: Die Welt ist überschwemmt, Europa eine Insellandschaft, Freiheit und Reichtum unserer Gegenwart – ein ferner Traum. Der Literaturwissenschaftler Thomas Metcalfe sucht ein verschollenes Gedicht von Weltrang. Der Dichter Francis Blundy hat es 2014 seiner Frau Vivien gewidmet und nur ein einziges Mal vorgetragen. In all den Spuren, die das berühmte Paar hinterlassen hat, stößt Thomas auf eine geheime Liebe, aber auch auf ein Verbrechen. Ian McEwan entwirft meisterhaft eine zukünftige Welt, in der nicht alles verloren ist.