Amsterdam

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness * Sunday Telegraph *A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness * Sunday Telegraph *One of the finest writers alive * Sunday Times *Full of gusto, straightforward, and delivers blows to the gut…shocking * Literary Review *McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache * Daily Telegraph *Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining * Evening Standard *Even more timely today than when it won the Booker in 1998 * Daily Mail *The novel twists and turns unexpectedly…McEwan has a master’s control over his instrument * Sunday Times *This is not one to read if you’re in need of a joyful book, but perfect if you want a well-crafted, can’t-look-away kind of story * i *

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement and Enduring Love have both been turned into award-winning films, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach are in production and set for release this year, and filming is currently underway for a BBC TV adaptation of The Child in Time.