“m a atwood”

Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices-- after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate... More

A moving new book of fiction which could be seen as a collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel … or a novel broken up into eleven interrelated stories. It resembles a photograph album — a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also of the other lives i... More

Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising n... More

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph 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 radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor th... More