Ian McEwan

I love that he’s a fine writer AND a plot-driven storyteller. Would appreciate similar style recommendations. Thanks.

I prefer his early stuff--CHILD IN TIME and CEMENT GARDEN, for instance--but I also loved BLACK DOGS, with its notion of everyday reality brushed by the sacred.

I gave up on him after Saturday. Awful book. Not read anything by him since.

However, I continue to read Sebastian Faulks, another middlebrow English writer. There's also Kazuo Ishiguro, who is very good. Can als recommend Rose Tremain. Also, the late Iain Banks.

William Boyd or A. S. Byatt