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2 days ago | 
lesen.de | Kristin Hannah |James Baldwin |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood
An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture!'Astonishing. Compelling. Powerful' - Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing'Stuns with sacrifice. Uplifts with heroism' - Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry?Powerful' - Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight LibraryThe Number One bestselling novel which has captured the hearts of readers across the world. The Women is a novel of epic love and devastating loss.
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1 week ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Margaret Atwood |Stephen Snyder |Hiromi Kawakami |Asa Yoneda
‘Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do,’ Margaret Atwood famously said, often considered mother of the genre. ‘Sci-fi is that which we’re probably not going to see.’ Her comment emerged during a long-running (and occasionally heated) debate – one that saw her butt heads with SF titan Ursula K. Le Guin, who countered that speculative fiction is science fiction, and that trying to draw a line between them was merely splitting hairs.
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1 week ago | 
lesen.de | Claire Lombardo |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood |Sally Rooney
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had returns with brilliantly observed novel of a woman in midlife on the verge of upending everything when sudden family events threaten to unearth her painful past..
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2 weeks ago | 
images.dawn.com | Margaret Atwood
The music industry is fighting on platforms, through the courts and with legislators in a bid to prevent the theft and misuse of art from generative AI — but it remains an uphill battle. Sony Music said recently it has already demanded that 75,000 deepfakes — simulated images, tunes or videos that can easily be mistaken for real — be rooted out, a figure reflecting the magnitude of the issue.
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2 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Margaret Atwood
In 1965, when I was twenty-five and starting out as a writer, I was reading The New Yorker, as all of us young writers did. The magazine published short stories and I wrote them, though, at that time, not very many of them and not very well. In the April 3rd issue, I came across a story called “Orphans’ Progress,” by Mavis Gallant, a writer I hadn’t heard of. Oddly, it was set in Canada; most of the stories in The New Yorker took place in the United States, and why not?
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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
Skip to main content Win one of three bundles including a copy of our Monthly Spotlight title for April, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag Publication date and time: Published April 4, 2025To celebrate our Monthly Spotlight for April, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, we are giving you the chance to win a bundle of novels by the author, plus a limited-edition Booker Prize tote bag.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
Skip to main content Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1986, The Handmaid’s Tale is the dystopian novel that became a phenomenonThe Handmaid’s Tale was Atwood’s sixth novel – a chilling work of speculative fiction that masterfully examines gender, power, and resistance. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986 and won the first-ever Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987, and has since become a modern classic, inspiring adaptations across film, television, theatre, and ballet.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
Skip to main content In Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian classic, nothing happens ‘that hasn’t already happened at some time or another’Offred is a national resource. In the Republic of Gilead her viable ovaries make her a precious commodity, and the state allows her only one function: to breed. As a Handmaid she carries no name except her Master’s, for whose barren wife she must act as a surrogate.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood
Skip to main content In Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian classic, nothing happens ‘that hasn’t already happened at some time or another’Offred is a national resource. In the Republic of Gilead her viable ovaries make her a precious commodity, and the state allows her only one function: to breed. As a Handmaid she carries no name except her Master’s, for whose barren wife she must act as a surrogate.
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2 weeks ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood |Naomi Alderman
Offred is a national resource. In the Republic of Gilead her viable ovaries make her a precious commodity, and the state allows her only one function: to breed. As a Handmaid she carries no name except her Master’s, for whose barren wife she must act as a surrogate. Dissenters are supposed to end up either at the Wall, where they are hanged, or in the Colonies, to die a lingering death from radiation sickness. But the irrepressible Moira shows Offred that it is possible to cheat the system.
