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The Handmaid's Tale
Vintage Quarterbound Classics
2024 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's iconic dystopian novel.
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means 'of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world, she will be hanged. Yet even a repressive state cannot eradicate hope and ...
Alias Grace
2019 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Little, Brown Book Group
By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks.
Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery. 'Brilliant... Atwood's prose is searching.
So intimate it seems to be wri...
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Furies
Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 15 bestselling, award-winning authors
2024 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An acclaimed, fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers.
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Old Babes in the Wood
stories
2023 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Chatto & Windus
A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world.
These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited ...
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Fourteen Days
A Collaborative Novel
2024 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Set in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of neighbours has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Emma Donoghue and Celeste Ng.
One week into lockdown, the tenants of a run-down apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop each evening and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more n...
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Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
2022 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
• How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
• How can we...
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The Testaments
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Vintage UK
THE NO.1 BESTSELLER'Gripping' Guardian'Powerful' The Times The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power but it is beginning to rot from within.
The Handmaid's Tale
The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series
1996 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Vintage Publishing
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 that of the two men on which her future hangs...
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Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
2024 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
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, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together
"If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You’ve been missing out.” —The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of The Great Believers
Margaret Atwood has establi...
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The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Anchor