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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

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  A stylish new novel from Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth is an excellent plot-driven, literature-infused, highly enjoyable read. Set in 1972 it follows the fortunes of Serena Frome, unintentionally recruited to MI5 to set in motion Operation Sweet Tooth.

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  Solar by Ian McEwan

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  This entertaining novel traces the arc of an influential scientist, brought down professionally by climate change, and personally by his infidelities.

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  Saturday by Ian McEwan

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  Similar to Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, Saturday is a novel about one day in the comfortable middle class life of London surgeon Henry Perowne. Henry wakes up one Saturday, the day of the antiwar march on the city streets, and witnesses a plane crash which will turn his life upside down. Not plot heavy, it relies on McEwan's usual wonderful description of place and acutely drawn, sophisticated characters.

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  The Innocent by Ian McEwan

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  A spy novel in the most literary sense. Leonard Marnham is conducting surveillance in Cold War Berlin whilst having his innocence thoroughly corrupted by his local lover, Maria. The two elements of his life collide in a taut and suspenseful novel of the highest order.