{"product_id":"9781787335738","title":"What We Can Know","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  McEwan, Ian \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18 September 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e241 x 164 x 31 | 522g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS FICTION AWARD 2025**'McEwan’s most richly layered work' Sunday Times'A gripping page-turner' Observer'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak'A big, unabashed crowd-pleaser' TLSA quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We Can Know spans the past, present and future to ask profound questions about who we are and where we are going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the great lost poem, revelations of entangled love and a brutal crime emerge, destroying his assumptions about a story he thought he knew intimately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat We Can Know is a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52067814572368,"sku":"9781787335738","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781787335738_7757ee22-2855-45dd-9054-e6bc1a42735c.jpg?v=1765990704","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781787335738","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}