The eminent critic of modern-day capitalism Naomi Klein finds herself falling down a rabbit hole
as she grows fascinated by a woman she is frequently confused with, the feminist author
turned MAGA-style conspiracy theorist, Naomi Wolf.
In so doing, she stumbles on remarkable insights about a mirror world that too many of us inhabit – an online fantasy house of alternative
facts and explanations we use to make sense of an increasingly confusing and
troubled digital age. Identity itself, and with it our grip on reality, may be fracturing in ways we do not
even suspect.
An all-too-rare book of ideas that is also an elegantly written page-turner.
What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all?
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path?…
Carroll
tells the thrilling and appalling story of how the IRA plotted and came very
close to decapitating the British government by blowing up the seaside hotel
housing Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet colleagues during a Conservative
Party conference in 1984.
Students of history will find dozens of new insights
and explanations of what the IRA was thinking and how it mounted the plot.
The
rest of us are offered a thrilling read that is also a meditation on history,
memory, and the long-term consequences of political violence.
The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller
A New Statesman 'Best Book of 2023 so far'
'As taut as a fictional thriller' Mail on Sunday
'Gripping, detailed and richly layered' Guardian
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher
KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.
In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll…
It is an expertly written, utterly involving thriller/chiller that you could call the
perfect beach read as long as you don’t mind your beaches clammy, mysterious, and lurking with menace.
Ward is thought of as a genre writer (the genre being
mind-bending horror). Still, she deserves much broader consideration as a stylist
of the first order, a keen observer of character (especially of the off-kilter,
warped variety), and a constructor of dizzying literary puzzles that, at least
in this case, pay off magnificently.
'Ward's most complex and brilliant book yet' - GUARDIAN 'A darkly moving and heartfelt exploration of obsession' - DAILY EXPRESS
Writers are monsters. We eat everything we see...
In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood companions and the shadowy figure of the Daggerman, who stalked the New England town where they spent their summers. Of a horror that has followed Wilder through the decades. And of Sky, Wilder's one-time friend, who stole his unfinished memoir and turned it into a lurid bestselling novel,…
A book
that tells the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing as it has never been
told before, diving deep into the wild and often dysfunctional world of
America’s radical far-right decades before the insurrection at the Capitol and exposing the many failures of the federal response to what, at the time,
was the worst act of violence on American soil outside of wartime.
Reviewers
called it “a nonfiction book that is often stranger than fiction” and noted it
contained “enough freak-show touches to keep an FX drama stocked for three
seasons.”
