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14 Sep 2014:
John Crace reduces the author’s refined novel of high art and base passions to a more juvenile 700 words
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11 Sep 2014:
A high court judge immersed in her work finds her world disrupted by a life-or-death decision. By Tessa Hadley
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10 Sep 2014:
Author Ian McEwan spoke about his latest book, The Children Act, in front of a live audience with the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland. Here are some of the event highlights
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9 Sep 2014: Art, war and internet dominate as Neel Mukherjee tipped as favourite to win first Man Booker prize to allow all nationalities
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7 Sep 2014:
Ian McEwan's 13th novel, about a beleaguered high court judge, is his best since On Chesil Beach, writes Kate Kellaway
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6 Sep 2014:
The coming weeks promise to be the busiest for launches in years as top-quality authors fight it out for sales
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6 Sep 2014:
From Liv Tyler in New York to the fight against Ebola in Monrovia, we showcase the best photography commissioned by the Observer in August
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Video
(5min 16sec),
5 Sep 2014:
Watch the highlights of the Guardian's event with author Ian McEwan, talking about his latest novel The Children Act, as well as audience reactions
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Audio
(37min 44sec),
5 Sep 2014:
The novelist talks to Jonathan Freedland and a Guardian audience about the moral dilemmas at the heart of his latest novel, The Children Act
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Video
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5 Sep 2014:
The novelist reflects on the rise of religion in the modern world
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Video
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5 Sep 2014:
The novelist talks about the chaotic series of events that left five-year-old Ashya King alone in a Spanish hospital
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5 Sep 2014:
The conjoined twins who would die without medical intervention, a boy who refused blood transfusions on religious grounds … Ian McEwan on the stories from the family courts that inspired his latest novel
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2 Sep 2014: Alison Flood: The author says only a few 'earn their length' and he reads them itching to edit. But I can think of plenty of terrific giant stories – can't you?
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Poll,
2 Sep 2014:
Ian McEwan has criticised the long lengths of some books. Do you agree?
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31 Aug 2014:
In Ian McEwan's new book, a high court judge must decide whether a sick teenage boy lives or dies. In his own life, the novelist tells Robert McCrum, he feels mortality pressing in
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