At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as “science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong. For all readers who have loved The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.
More >From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes Nocturnes, Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, which is as affecting as it is beautiful.
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The questions, discussion topics, author biography, and bibliography that follow are meant to enhance your group’s reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled. We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at—and talking about—this mysterious and infinitely provocative new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of [...]
The Times [UK] have released their “100 Best Books of the Decade” list, and we’re pleased to see how many Knopf titles have made the list, including the number one spot (click through to find out what it is!).
More >One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
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