Ian McEwan - Solar

Solar is published on March 18th 2010. I need not say anything more. From the publishers, Random House:

Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing – a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. [...] When Beard’s professional and personal worlds are entwined in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and very possibly save the world from environmental disaster.

I think "a freak accident" sums up most of McEwan's recent fiction quite nicely (consecutively: Black Dogs, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach). If this book falls into that ilk we can expect something very, very special.