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When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerabilit
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Un jour, Jim Sams, cafard au destin extraordinaire, se réveille dans le corps du Premier ministre britannique. Il sait une chose : il a une mission à accomplir. Rien ni personne ne l'arrêtera dans sa volonté de porter la « voix du peuple », le Réversalisme. Ce Projet national qui rendra sa grandeur à la Grande-Bretagne a pour but l'inversion du sens de la circulation de l'argent. Désormais, les magasins rémunèrent leurs clients pour leurs courses. Les citoyens peuvent alors remettre à leurs employeurs une somme correspondant à leur temps de travail. Idée absurde pour certains, parfaitement logique pour d'autres, les débats à propos du Réversalisme font rage au Parlement et le reste de la planète observe, incrédule. Dans un habile jeu de miroirs, ce court texte rappelle évidemment La métamorphose de Kafka et le regard désabusé et satirique d'un Jonathan Swift. Il nous donne à voir un monde de faux-semblants et les rouages impitoyables du pouvoir. Avec intelligence et humour, Ian McEwan propose un commentaire piquant et absurde de la société britannique actuelle.
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Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda''s assistance, he co-designs Adam''s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan''s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.
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**The Number One Sunday Times bestseller** A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Irish Times / Spectator / Sunday Times / The Times Book of the Year Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.
Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers.
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Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out.
She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies and her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both.
