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‘It can all explode in an instant’: Naomi Alderman on the unshakable relevance of The Handmaid’s Tale

3 weeks ago | thebookerprizes.com | Jonathan Cape |Margaret Atwood

The world is full of Aunt Lydias. There are so many marvellous creations in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, so many moments of horror and shock and – ‘oh of course it would happen that way’. So many things that look very prescient now, as the gains of the women’s movement in the 70s, 80s and 90s are slowly being rolled back in the USA. But most of all, there are Aunt Lydias.
13 of the best speculative fiction novels, nominated for the Booker Prizes

4 weeks 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.
Win a set of all six books from the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist

1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Solvej Balle |Barbara J. Haveland

We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all six shortlisted titles in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize Publication date and time: Published April 14, 2025To celebrate the announcement of the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, we are giving you the chance to win a set of all six titles that are in contention for this year’s prize. The shortlisted books are:On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Barbara J.
Why you should read the International Booker Prize 2025 shortlist, according to our judges

1 month ago | thebookerprizes.com | Anne Serre |Mark Hutchinson |Max Porter |Solvej Balle

The six books on the shortlist have been chosen by the 2025 judging panel: bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter; prize-winning poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and Publishing Director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and award-winning singer-songwriter Beth Orton.
Win a copy of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

1 month 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.
Monthly Spotlight: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

1 month 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.
Read an extract from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

1 month 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.
An extract from The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

1 month 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.
Reading guide: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

1 month 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.
Bernardine Evaristo on A Brief History of Seven Killings: ‘Marlon James’ language is electrifying, mesmerising, rhapsodic, lyrical’

2 months ago | thebookerprizes.com | Bernardine Evaristo |Marlon James

The 2019 Booker Prize-winning author reflects on Marlon James’ novel, which won the prize a decade ago – an audacious, polyphonic portrait of 1970s Jamaica, where violence, power and fame collide Written by Bernardine Evaristo Publication date and time: Published March 7, 2025If you’re looking for safe, tame and familiar fiction where the writer leads you gently by the hand and promises to look after you, then A Brief History of Seven Killings is not for you.