Amsterdam

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***

Two old friends – Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday – meet at the funeral of gorgeous, witty Molly Lane. Clive is Britain’s most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet, The Judge .

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness

A psychologically brilliant study of heartlessness

One of the finest writers alive

Full of gusto, straightforward, and delivers blows to the gut...shocking

McEwan writes here with unobtrusive panache

Amsterdam is brilliantly engineered and marvellously entertaining

Even more timely today than when it won the Booker in 1998

The novel twists and turns unexpectedly...McEwan has a master's control over his instrument

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

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels and two short story collections. 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 ; Nutshell ; Machines Like Me ; and Lessons . Atonement , Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.