{"product_id":"9781529959208","title":"What We Can Know","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: McEwan, Ian\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 18 June 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 129 | 254g\u003cp\u003eIn a world submerged by rising seas, can the secrets of the past be discovered? The breathtaking Sunday Times bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Full of wisdom and heart. I loved it’ Elif Shafak‘A gripping page-turner’ Observer‘It gave me so much pleasure’ New York Times2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2119: With the UK’s lowlands submerged by rising seas, those who survive are haunted by all that has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Metcalfe, a university scholar, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the lost poem, he reveals a story of entangled love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew about the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘What We Can Know may well have created a new genre’ Sunday Times‘Brilliantly plotted… In What We Can Know, the past is an irresistible riddle’ Washington Post‘Propulsive…entertaining and enjoyable’ Financial Times‘A dazzling novel’ Independent‘Haunting, playful and ultimately hopeful… A wonderful book’ Kaliane Bradley‘A poignant love letter to the vanishing past’ Guardian*A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman, Spectator, New Yorker, i Paper and Barack Obama*\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McEwan, Ian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53472928399544,"sku":"9781529959208","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529959208.jpg?v=1780059385","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529959208","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}