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Fiona Maye, juge spécialisée en droit de la famille, est passionnée par son travail. Elle en délaisse son mari, surtout depuis l'affaire Adam Henry. Cet adolescent de dix-sept ans est atteint de leucémie, mais les croyances religieuses de ses parents interdisent toute transfusion sanguine. Les médecins s'en sont remis à la cour. Après avoir entendu les deux parties, Fiona se rend à l'hôpital. Mais la rencontre avec Adam s'avère troublante et, indécise, la magistrate peine à rendre son jugement.

Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma.

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.

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 secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life - and to lose his unwanted innocence.

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 for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency.

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis,a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself.

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now her marriage of 30 years is in crisis. At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for religious reasons, a beautiful 17-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out.

One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.

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.

Am heißesten Tag im Sommer 1935 wird die dreizehnjährige Briony Tallis im Landhaus ihrer Familie Zeuge eines eigenartigen Geschehens. In der Schwüle des Tages sind alle wie verwandelt: Was treibt die ältere Schwester mit Robbie Turner am Brunnen, was in einer dunklen Ecke der Bibliothek? Und wie ist jenes Wort in dem Brief zu verstehen, den sie nicht öffnen sollte? Mit Briony geht die Phantasie durch. Noch am selben Abend ist das Leben aller Beteiligten für immer verändert...

On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most successful modern composer, Vernon as editor of the quality broadsheet The Judge. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had had other lovers too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister.

Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things?

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. With trademark intelligence, insight and scabrous humour, Ian McEwan pays tribute to Franz Kafka’s most famous work to engage with a world turned on its head.

Roland Baines ist noch ein Kind, als er 1959 im Internat der Person begegnet, die sein Leben aus der Bahn werfen wird: der Klavierlehrerin Miriam Cornell. Roland ist junger Vater, als seine deutsche Frau Alissa ihn und das vier Monate alte Baby verlässt. Es ist das Jahr 1986. Während die Welt sich wegen Tschernobyl sorgt, beginnt Roland, nach Antworten zu suchen, zu seiner Herkunft, seinem rastlosen Leben und all dem, was Alissa von ihm fortgetrieben hat.

En la gran casa de campo de la familia Tallis, la madre se ha encerrado en su habitación con migraña, y el señor Tallis, un importante funcionario, está, como casi siempre, en Londres. Briony, la hija menor, de trece años, desesperada por ser adulta y ya herida por la literatura, ha escrito una obra de teatro para agasajar a su hermano Leon, que ha terminado sus exámenes en la universidad y hoy vuelve a casa con un amigo.

McEwan explora la ciencia ficción: ¿puede una máquina llegar a entender y juzgar la complejidad moral de las decisiones de un ser humano? Londres, años ochenta del siglo pasado. Pero un Londres distópico y alternativo, en el que la historia ha seguido algunos senderos diferentes. Por ejemplo, el Reino Unido ha perdido la Guerra de las Malvinas y el científico Alan Turing no se ha suicidado atormentado por las consecuencias del juicio al que fue sometido en los años cincuenta por su homosexualidad, sino que sigue vivo.

Serena Frome ist schön, klug und schließt gerade ihr Mathematik-Studium in Cambridge ab - eine ideale Rekrutin für den MI5, den britischen Inlandsgeheimdienst. Man schreibt das Jahr 1972. Der Kalte Krieg ist noch lange nicht vorbei, und auch die Sphäre der Kultur ist ein umkämpftes Schlachtfeld: Der MI5 will Schriftsteller und Intellektuelle fördern, deren politische Haltung der Staatsmacht genehm ist. Die Operation trägt den Codenamen "Honig".