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Dunkirk

Ian McEwan

‘There were horrors enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterwards would not let him go.’

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize three times, winning the award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement, made into a film, received the W.H. Smith Literary Award (2002), the National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). He was chosen as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. His novel Machines Like Me was published by Vintage in 2019 and followed by the novella The Cockroach.

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