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Lionel Shriver

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What if calling someone stupid was illegal? In a reality not too distant from our own, the worst...

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The Wolves of Winter

Tyrell Johnson

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Forget the old days. Forget summer. Forget warmth. Forget anything that doesn’t help you survive ...

Emma Watson recommended The Handmaid's Tale in Books (curated)

"Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale over thirty years ago now, but it is a book that has never stopped fascinating readers because it articulates so vividly what it feels like for a woman to lose power over her own body. Like George Orwell’s 1984 (a novel that Atwood was inspired by) its title alone summons up a whole set of ideas, even for those who haven’t read it…Atwood has called it ‘speculative fiction’, but also says that all the practises described in the novel are ‘drawn from the historical record’ – i.e. are things that have actually taken place in the past. Could any of Atwood’s speculations take place again, or are some of them taking place already? Are the women in the book powerless in their oppression or could they be doing more to fight it?"

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