Machines Like Me

In an alternative eighties London, in the backdrop to which Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power following the loss of the Falklands, the drifting Charlie purchases an Alan Turing-designed synthetic human and finds himself in a love triangle with love interest Miranda and the robotic purchase. McEwan on provocative and exciting form.

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. 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; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.