Naomi Alderman

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed.

The Power

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future—as the richest people on the planet have discovered—is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers. The Future is private weather, technological prophecy and highly deniable weapons. The Future is a handful of friends—the daughter of a cult leader, a non-binary hacker, an ousted Silicon Valley visionary, the concerned wife of a dangerous CEO, and an internet-famous survivalist—hatching a daring plan. It could be the greatest heist ever. Or the cataclysmic end of civilization. The Future is what you see if you don’t look behind you. The Future is the only reason to do anything, the only object of desire. The Future is here.

The Future

Val McDermid

Alyssa Cole

Lucy Foley

Natalie Haynes

Ruth Ware

Leigh Bardugo

Jean Kwok

Kate Mosse

Karen M. McManus

Elly Griffiths

Dreda Say Mitchell

Agatha Christie

Marple: Twelve New Stories

Twelve further adventures of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, penned by twelve masters of crime. Poison disposes of poachers and patriarchs alike, striking on the high seas, at a wedding reception, and an Oxford college dinner. Valuable jewellery vanishes; inheritances are threatened; people disappear or drown or die. Fatal consequences are incurred from brawling amongst pigs, doing a spot of gardening - or simply being a new face in the village. From her little village of St Mary Mead to a Chinese cruise ship, from a run-down Manhattan theatre to an Italian villa, Miss Marple encounters mystery and murder wherever she goes. And this shrewd observer of human nature will untangle the threads of deceit to find the truth...

Twelve New Stories

Marple

All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control. The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end? With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's shocking and visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light. What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? The iconic bestseller, winner of the Women's Prize, and soon-to-be-TV series, The Power is a truly extraordinary modern classic.

Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Przyszłość

Il Vangelo dei bugiardi

When a new force takes hold of the world, people from different areas of life are forced to cross paths in an alternate reality that gives women and teenage girls immense physical power that can cause pain and death.

Сила

ET SI LES FEMMES PRENAIENT ENFIN LE POUVOIR DANS LE MONDE ENTIER ? Aux quatre coins du monde, les femmes découvrent qu'elles détiennent le "pouvoir". Du bout des doigts, elles peuvent infliger une douleur fulgurante - et même la mort. Soudain, les hommes comprennent qu'ils deviennent le "sexe faible". Mais jusqu'où iront les femmes pour imposer ce nouvel ordre ? « Électrisant ! Choquant ! Décoiffant ! Vous ne regarderez plus jamais les choses de la même façon... » Margaret Atwood, auteur de La Servante écarlate « Mettre en lumière les travers des humains et continuer d’éveiller les consciences : c’est là que réside le pouvoir de ce livre. » Aurélie Janssens, librairie Page et Plume, Limoges « Une écriture électrique. Un rythme endiablé. Si le pouvoir change de camp, pour le meilleur comme pour le pire, ne passez pas à côté : Lisez ce livre ! » Charlotte Desmousseaux, librairie La vie devant soi, Nantes

Le Pouvoir

Disobbedienza

The new novel from the Women's Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. The Future - as the richest people on the planet have discovered - is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers. The Future is private weather, technological prophecy and highly deniable weapons. The Future is a handful of friends--the daughter of a cult leader, a non-binary hacker, an ousted Silicon Valley visionary, the concerned wife of a dangerous CEO, and an internet-famous survivalist--hatching a daring plan. It could be the greatest heist ever. Or the cataclysmic end of civilization. The Future is what you see if you don't look behind you. The Future is the only reason to do anything, the only object of desire. The Future is here.

12 ​új Miss Marple-sztori

Galybė

Zwölf einzigartige Krimigeschichten von zwölf internationalen Bestsellerautorinnen feiern die Queen of Crime und die erfolgreichste und beliebteste weibliche Detektivfigur aller Zeiten: Vorhang auf für Miss Marple! Sie ist jedem ein Begriff: Miss Marple, die alte Dame aus St. Mary Mead, besitzt die geradezu unheimliche Fähigkeit, noch den verwickeltsten Fall in kürzester Zeit bei einer Tasse Tee zu lösen. Hier kehrt sie knapp fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem letzten Auftritt ("Ruhe unsanft") zurück auf die Bühne. Ob sie in den zwielichtigen Ecken des Broadway oder in einem besonders mysteriösen Todesfall in Hong Kong ermittelt: Die erfolgreichste und beliebteste weibliche Detektivfigur aller Zeiten ist, von zwölf internationalen Bestsellerautorinnen mit frischem Abenteuer- und Ermittlersinn ausgestattet, ganz die alte unbestechliche Spürnase. Ein kongeniales Buch, das eine einmalige Figur und ihre Autorin aufs Unterhaltsamste feiert. Mit Erzählungen von: Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, Val McDermid, Leigh Bardugo, Naomi Alderman, Karen M. McManus, Kate Mosse, Alyssa Cole, Elly Griffiths, Natalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Dreda Say Mitchell. »Jeder der Autorinnen gelingt es, sich Christie - und Marple - nahezu perfekt anzuverwandeln und ihren Geschichten genau die richtige Dosis der eigenen Handschrift beizumengen.« The Washington Post »Alle Autorinnen erfinden diese scharfsinnige Beobachterin der menschlichen Natur auf erfrischende Weise neu.« The Guardian »Agatha Christie ist der Goldstandard des Krimis - und Miss Marple mit Fug und Recht ihre beliebteste Ermittlerin.« emLos Angeles Times

Miss Marple

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going The Future--as the richest people on the planet have discovered--is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers. The Future is private weather, technological prophecy and highly deniable weapons. The Future is a handful of friends--the daughter of a cult leader, a non-binary hacker, an ousted Silicon Valley visionary, the concerned wife of a dangerous CEO and an Internet-famous survivalist--hatching a daring plan. It could be the greatest heist ever. Or the cataclysmic end of civilization. The Future is what you see if you don't look behind you. The Future is the only reason to do anything, the only object of desire. The Future is here.

A Novel

They came from nowhere, and now they are everywhere. A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long, trunk-like nose. Suddenly these “mimmoths” are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they’ve come from. As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief – a place with its own logic and rhythms – the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India. They seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes. Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. Or is she just succumbing to ‘mimmoth psychosis’? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably? From the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Power, The Strangers is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It’s like nothing you’ll have read before.

The Strangers

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a “page-turning” (Los Angeles Times), “propulsive” (The Boston Globe), “thrilling” (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. Martha Einkorn never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry while spouting technological prophecy. Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What do they know about the future that Zhen doesn’t? When Martha and Zhen’s worlds collide, an explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful—or it could herald the cataclysmic end of civilization. By turns “playful, incisive, horribly relevant, and surprisingly hopeful” (Lauren Beukes, New York Times bestselling author of The Shining Girls), The Future unfolds at breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here.

''Exactly the book you need right now' Stylist 'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you've felt for ages but haven't been able to articulate? This is like that. It's so good. She should give Radio 4's next Reith Lectures' Guardian An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we're living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis. The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in new ways, it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world. There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity's third information crisis. The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and the second, the invention of the printing press 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed, as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious. By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present, and prepare for our future. Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today explores how new technology opens up new ways of being and helps us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload. 'Alderman is one of our most surprising and delightful public intellectuals, and this book grapples wonderfully with our current schisms and their historical precedents' JON RONSON

(and Other Lessons from History about Living Through an Information Crisis)

Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

Alderman’s archive features notebooks, manuscript drafts for her novels, 'Disobedience' and 'The Power', as well as annotated creative writing workshop submissions, early short stories and some edited scripts for Alderman's co-created Zombies Run! app. A significant amount of material is background research and professional papers. The collection of 28 boxes is still in the process of being catalogued. Some material has been embargoed.

Naomi Alderman

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