Ian McEwan
21) The Daydreamer
Author
Language
English
Description
Internationally best-selling author and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan presents his first book for children-The Daydreamer. Peter Fortune is unlike most kids his age. In fact, he's different from everybody else in the world. Peter has the amazing ability to make his daydreams come true. A captivating narration from Simon Prebble brings McEwan's imaginative and adventurous story to vivid life for listeners of all ages.
22) The Innocent
Author
Language
English
Description
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
23) On Chesil Beach
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
24) The good son
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eight-year-old Mark is sent to live with his cousin Henry and his family for a few weeks. Mark soon begins to suspect that all is not right with the seemingly innocent-looking Henry.
25) On Chesil Beach
Author
Language
English
Description
By Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the drama centers on a young couple of drastically different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Following the pair through their idyllic courtship, the film explores sex and the societal pressure that can accompany physical intimacy, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Emily Watson, and Samuel West.
26) Enduring Love
Author
Language
English
Description
Joe (Daniel Craig, Road to Perdition) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton, Minority Report). Jed (Rhys Ifans, Notting Hill), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they’ve both witnessed. Jed soon...