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Paper Boat

Margaret Atwood

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age

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The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope & Odysseus

Margaret Atwood

In The Odyssey, Penelope - daughter of King Icarius of Sparta, and the cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Atwood’s dazzling…

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Burning Questions

Margaret Atwood

An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood.

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Old Babes in the Wood

Margaret Atwood

A highly personal new collection of stories by the bestselling, twice Booker-winning cultural icon

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Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed.

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The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood

Penelope’s slyly brilliant side of the story, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid’s Tale.

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Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

Margaret Atwood

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.

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On Writers and Writing

Margaret Atwood

A fascinating collection of six essays, written for the William Empson Lectures in Oxford, each exploring an aspect of writerly contemplation.

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The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood

A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping…

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Margaret Atwood’s Aesthetics

This collection recognizes prominent Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's impact as a highly political writer whose literary oeuvre engages with burning contemporary political questions on the personal, imaginative, scientific, and material…

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Life Before Man

Margaret Atwood

Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments…

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood

An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.

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Burning Questions

Margaret Atwood

An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood

Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Atwood’s dystopian trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love.

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel.

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The Edible Woman

Margaret Atwood

The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and desire to be consumed.

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The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

Atwood’s Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood’s backlist

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Fourteen Days

Led by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, a star-studded collection of writers come together to create a dazzlingly original, multi-voiced novel

'Compelling' Marie Claire * 'Immensely enjoyable' Observer * 'Fascinating'…

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Looking at Women Looking at War

Victoria Amelina

Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful look at the courage of resistance

WITH A FOREWORD BY MARGARET ATWOOD

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina…

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Dearly: Poems

Margaret Atwood

GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 – BEST POETRY The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet - and cultural phenomenon.

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Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories

Margaret Atwood

Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more…

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The Edge of the Sea

Rachel Carson

The third volume in Rachel Carson’s classic and New York Times bestselling Sea trilogy, about the delicate beauty of the shoreline.

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Oryx and Crake (Maddaddam, Book1)

Margaret Atwood

The outrageous imagination of Margaret Atwood has never been better. Dark, witty, scary and very credible, this is a mystery, an adventure story, a page-turner and a brilliant novel. Shortlisted…

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Fourteen Days

The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual…

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Fourteen Days

Margaret Atwood (ed.), Douglas Preston (ed.)

Led by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, a star-studded collection of writers come together to create a dazzlingly original, multi-voiced novel

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What Happened to Belen

Ana Elena Correa

"There are many women like Belen whose names we don't know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman's fight for justice."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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The Fiction of Margaret Atwood

Dr Fiona Tolan

Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work

Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven…

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from a prize-winning artist, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred’s nor…

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent…

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Freedom: Vintage Minis

Margaret Atwood

In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of…

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Bodily Harm

Margaret Atwood

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

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Surfacing

Margaret Atwood

A young woman returns to northern Quebec to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. As the…

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Dancing Girls and Other Stories

Margaret Atwood

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood’s masterly skill for storytelling. Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and…

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function- to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent…

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Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995

Margaret Atwood

* EATING FIRE - Margaret Atwood’s poetry - reissued with a stunning new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood’s backlist

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The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood

A novel about sex and power and friendship.

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Old Babes in the Wood

Margaret Atwood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships…

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Paper Boat

Margaret Atwood

"Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood - a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes - Paper Boat assembles Atwood's most vital poems in one essential volume"--

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of…

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Furies

Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, Kirsty Logan, Chibundu Onuzo, Caroline O'Donoghue, Linda Grant, Susie Boyt, Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.

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Democracy

Margaret Atwood, Professor Mary Beard, Erica Benner, Kaja Kallas, Aditi Mittal, Vjosa Osmani, Adela Raz, Elif Shafak, Lola Shoneyin, Yuan Yang

In collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders

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Margaret Atwood

Coral A. Howells

This introduction covers Atwood’s work from the end of the 1960s to the present, drawing out her recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and…

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Margaret Atwood

Coral A. Howells

This introduction covers Atwood’s work from the end of the 1960s to the present, drawing out her recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and…

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Margaret Atwood

As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of…

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Margaret Atwood

Marion Wynne-Davies

Traces the chronological development of Margaret Atwood’s global reputation from Canadian nationhood to world-wide politics and from the role of women to gender identity. This book offers a comprehensive overview…

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Farley and Claire

Michael Harris

"The tumultuous, enduring love story between iconic writer Farley Mowat and his wife Claire, including excerpts from their passionate letters, published here for the first time. Published in partnership with…

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