Ian McEwan - Collected Works (28 books)

* Ian McEwan - Collected Works (28 books)

IAN McEWAN (b.1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of the most critically acclaimed and influential figures in contemporary British literature. Emerging in the 1970s as part of a brilliant generation of writers that included Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, and Julian Barnes, McEwan initially earned the nickname "Ian Macabre" due to his obsession with gothic, transgressive, and deeply unsettling themes. Over a career spanning five decades, his style evolved from shocking examinations of human depravity into a masterful, elegant prose style. His mature work is celebrated for its psychological depth, narrative tension, and a keen intellectual engagement with science, morality, and social history.

McEwan first captured the literary world's attention with his dark, visceral short fiction, debuting with the collection FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES (1975), which won the Somerset Maugham Award, followed closely by IN BETWEEN THE SHEETS (1978). He seamlessly transitioned to longer fiction with his early novels THE CEMENT GARDEN (1978) and THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (1981), both of which maintained his signature eerie ambiance. His narrative scope expanded significantly in the following decades with landmark novels like THE CHILD IN TIME (1987), which won the Whitbread Novel Award, the Cold War thriller THE INNOCENT (1990), and BLACK DOGS (1992). He achieved his greatest commercial and critical triumphs around the turn of the millennium, winning the Booker Prize for AMSTERDAM (1998) and widespread international masterpiece status for ATONEMENT (2001), a sweeping historical metafiction exploring guilt and wartime tragedy. His subsequent prolific output includes high-stakes contemporary narratives such as SATURDAY (2005), ON CHESIL BEACH (2007), SOLAR (2010), SWEET TOOTH (2012), THE CHILDREN ACT (2014), NUTSHELL (2016), MACHINES LIKE ME (2019), and LESSONS (2022). His most recent novel, WHAT WE CAN KNOW (2025), described as a mix between a literary mystery and a post-apocalyptic "campus novel," explores memory, human guilt, and the limits of knowledge.

Beyond his celebrated novelistic career, McEwan has proved to be a highly versatile writer across multiple mediums. His early dramatic writing for television and stage includes the play THE IMITATION GAME (1981), which focused on wartime codebreakers. He later adapted several of his own novels for the screen, writing the screenplays for THE PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH (1983), ON CHESIL BEACH (2017) and THE CHILDREN ACT (2017). His musical collaborations are equally noteworthy; he authored the libretto for Michael Berkeley’s anti-war oratorio OR SHALL WE DIE? (1983) and collaborated with him again on the opera FOR YOU (2008). He also wrote THE DAYDREAMER (1994), an acclaimed children's novel that explores the rich, transformative inner life of a ten-year-old boy named Peter Fortune through seven interconnected, surreal fantasies.

While best known for his narrative invention, McEwan has also built a substantive body of non-fiction work that mirrors his intellectual passions. He is a frequent contributor to major political and literary periodicals. His non-fiction writing consistently champions rationalism, free speech, and scientific literacy, while offering sharp commentary on contemporary global politics, climate change, and the craft of fiction. Collectively, his vast and multifaceted body of work establishes him as a profound chronicler of the modern human condition.


The following books are in ePUB or PDF format as noted:

== NOVELS ==

* Amsterdam (Vintage, 2010) – ePUB
* Atonement (Anchor, 2003) – ePUB
* Black Dogs (Anchor, 2011) – ePUB
* The Cement Garden (Vintage UK, 2016) – ePUB
* The Child in Time (Vintage UK, 2010) – ePUB
* The Children Act (Nan Talese, 2014) – ePUB
* The Cockroach (Anchor, 2019) – ePUB
* The Comfort of Strangers (Vintage UK, 2006) – ePUB
* Enduring Love (Anchor, 2009) – ePUB
* The Innocent (Anchor, 2010) – ePUB
* Lessons (Knopf, 2022) – ePUB
* Machines Like Me (Nan Talese, 2019) – ePUB
* Nutshell (Nan Talese, 2016) – ePUB
* On Chesil Beach (Vintage, 2008) – ePUB
* Saturday (Nan Talese, 2006) – ePUB
* Solar (Nan Talese, 2010) – ePUB
* Sweet Tooth (Nan Talese, 2012) – ePUB
* What We Can Know (Knopf, 2025) – ePUB

== SHORT STORIES ==

* First Love, Last Rites (Vintage UK, 2023) – ePUB
* In Between The Sheets and Other Stories (Vintage, 2006) – ePUB
* My Purple Scented Novel: A Short Story (Vintage, 2016) – ePUB

== CHILDREN'S FICTION ==

* The Daydreamer (Anchor, 2011) – ePUB

== PLAYS & SCREENPLAYS ==

* The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television (Picador, 1982) – PDF
* The Ploughman's Lunch: An Original Screenplay (Methuen, 1985) – ePUB

== LIBRETTOS ==

* A Move Abroad: or, Shall We Die? and The Ploughman's Lunch (Picador, 1989) – PDF
* For You: The Libretto (Vintage UK, 2008) – PDF

== NON-FICTION ==

* Science (Vintage UK, 2019) – PDF

== INTERVIEWS ==

* Conversations with Ian McEwan [ed. Roberts] (Mississippi, 2010) – PDF


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