Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen. 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 and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. Pre-signed books will be available to purchase on the night from The Book Hive.Ĭelebrating ten years of Norwich UNESCO City of Literature, programmed by National Centre for Writing. Back in 1971, Ian was the first graduate of UEA’s MA in Creative Writing, and he also supported the city’s bid to become England’s first UNESCO City of Literature in 2012. Together they will discuss his new novel and his longstanding relationship with Norwich. Ian will be in conversation with Sarah Perry, the internationally bestselling author of Melmoth, The Essex Serpent, and After Me Comes the Flood. McEwan’s novel is a chronicle of our times - a powerful meditation on history and humanity told through the prism of one man’s lifetime. How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past? It raises important questions for us all. Spanning a 70-year period, Lessons starts as the Second World War is ending, taking in the Suez and Cuban Missile Crises, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and continuing right up to the current pandemic and climate change. Ian McEwan, our foremost storyteller, returns to Norwich UNESCO City of Literature to discuss his ambitious and mesmerising new novel, Lessons.

Sarah perry new book