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From shocking short stories to a talking foetus: Ian McEwan’s 10 best books – ranked!

As the author’s future-set novel, What We Can Know, hits shelves, we assess his top 10 works – from chilling short stories to Booker prize-winning satire

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2025

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2023

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken

Actor Simon McBurney narrates the tale of how a sexual relationship between a teenage boy and his piano teacher changes the course of his life

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023

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From life lessons to family ties: Here are 10 reads for this summer

If you're looking for books for that upcoming summer trip or simply have a New Year's resolution to read more in 2023, we've got you covered.

The New Daily · Dec 31, 2022

Ian McEwan's Lessons, his most autobiographical novel, is a new experiment in vulnerability

Lessons is Ian McEwan’s most autobiographical novel to date. It is the story of a man’s life, but it is also the story of a man making his life into a story. It exemplifies the risks and rewards of living a life shaped from within by the logic of literature.

The Conversation · Oct 24, 2022

Review: 'Lessons,' by Ian McEwan

FICTION: An ambitious novel charts the relationship between an ordinary man's travails and decades of geopolitical upheaval.

Tribune News Service · Sep 14, 2022

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Lessons by Ian McEwan and The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman.

The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2022

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Lessons by Ian McEwan review – life-and-times epic of a feckless boomer

McEwan takes aim at the postwar generation in this old-fashioned but generous and humane portrait of individual indecision against the backdrop of history

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2022

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan’s Lessons to Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes

Martin Chilton reviews six of September’s biggest new books for our monthly column

The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022

Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’

The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2022

Booker Prize-winner Ian McEwan’s new novel out in September

Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan is all set to get his new novel published in September 2022. Titled 'Lessons', the novel follows protagonist Roland Baines' journey from post-World War two to the present time of the pandemic and climate crisis. It explores the impact childhood traumas and certain situations have…

The Times of India · Jan 20, 2022

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