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McEwan's New Novel -- Solar

Random House is delighted to announce the publication of a new novel by Ian McEwan, Solar.

Solar is an engrossing and satirical novel which focuses on climate change and will be published on 18 March 2010. This story – of one man's ambitions and self-deceptions – is a stylish new work by one of the word's greatest living writers.

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Continuum's Ian McEwan Competition

Continuum is generously giving away free copies of Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives to undergraduate students. If you wish to enter the competition, please answer the following three questions:1. What was the illustrious nickname Ian McEwan acquired in the 1970s?2. In which unnamed city is The Comfort of Strangers set?3. From which Jane Austen novel does Atonement take its epigraph?

New Book of Essays on Ian McEwan's Work

Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesEdited by Sebastian GroesContinuum, 2009.ISBN: 9780826497222A valuable addition to McEwan scholarship, this collection of essays from the Contemporary Critical Perspectives series helps define and guide the future course of McEwan studies.Purchase online from Continuum, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, BN.com, or a wide selection of high-quality Independent

Ian Hamilton: Collected Poems

Ian Hamilton: Collected PoemsEdited with an introduction by Alan Jenkins (Faber and Faber, 2009)Ian McEwan writes about his relationship with Ian Hamilton in Another Rounds at the Pillars, and the text of McEwan's essay is available online at the Ian Hamilton Website.Synopsis from the Publisher:"A professional man of letters -- critic, editor, biographer -- though never a professional poet, Ian