Atonement (novel) Atonement (novel) Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl's half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. Widely regarded as one of McEwan's best works, it was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction. In 2010, "TIME" magazine named "Atonement" in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels
Alien novels have been published by Titan Books, using the "Alien" trademark, making the novels based on the first film. Alien novels The "Alien" novels are an extension of the "Alien" movie franchise. The novels are based in the universe created by screenwriters Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett and Alan Dean Foster. Up until 1998, the novels were published by Bantam Books and were all adaptations of various comics previously published by Dark Horse Comics. Between 2005 and 2008, a run of original stories was published by Dark Horse Comics under their DH Press imprint starting with "Original Sin" which takes place after