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It is uplifting and miraculous with plenty of surprises along the way. It is vintage Smith * Jackie Kay *\u003cbr\u003e\"Winter\" is an insubordinate folk tale, with echoes of the fiction of Iris Murdoch and Angela Carter... \u003cb\u003eThere are\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003efew\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ewriters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eworld\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003estage who are producing fiction this offbeat and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ealluring\u003c\/b\u003e... [Ali Smith] intends to send a chill up your shanks and she succeeds, jubilantly... Her dialogue is a series of pine cones flung at rosy cheeks * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eSmith is routinely \u003cb\u003ebrilliant, knowing, masterful\u003c\/b\u003e... The light inside this great novelist's gorgeous snow globe is utterly original, and it definitely illuminates * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe only preparation required to savor the Scottish writer Ali Smith's virtuosic \"Winter\" is to pay attention to the world we've recently been living in...What Smith has achieved in her cycle so far is exactly what we need artists to do in disorienting times: make sense of events, console us, show us how we got here, help us believe that we will find our way through...\u003cb\u003eSmith gives us a potent, necessary source of sustenance that speaks directly to our age\u003c\/b\u003e...Yet we, like her characters, are past the winter solstice now - the darkest part of the coldest season done. From here on out, we're headed toward the light...It doesn't feel that way, I know. 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And are they safe from one another? \u003cb\u003e_______\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2021 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Everyone is talking about LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND\u003c\/b\u003e 'You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 'A page-turner taking in themes of isolation, race and class’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ‘A book that could have been tailor-made for our times’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e ‘A literary page-turner that will keep you awake even after it ends’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 'An exceptional examination of race and class and what the world looks like when it's ending' \u003cb\u003e Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e 'A thrilling book - one that will speak to readers who have felt the terror of isolation in these recent months and one that will simultaneously, as great books do, lift them out of it' \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'Explores complex ideas about privilege and fate with miraculous wit and grace' \u003cb\u003e Jenny Offill\u003c\/b\u003e ‘For the reader, the invisible terror outside in \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e echoes the sense of disquiet today in a world convulsed by the pandemic’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'Alam's achievement is to see that his genre's traditional arc, which relies on the idea of aftermath, no longer makes sense. Today, disaster novels call for something different' \u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 'Read it with the lights on' \u003cb\u003e Jenna Bush Hager, October Book Club pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStupendously good . . . Simply breathtaking, full of moments of exquisite recognition, as terrifying and prescient as Cormac McCarthy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory . . . When future generations (if that term doesn’t sound over-optimistic at the moment) want to know what it was like to live through the nightmare of 2020, this is the novel they’ll reach for * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eWould be resonant and terrifying even in a more normal year . . . In his dazzling prose, his fascination with catastrophe and his apparent ability to portend the future, Alam is a worthy descendant of Don DeLillo . . . You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA sensation . . . A tense, atmospheric, splendidly written attempt to grapple with impending doom … Even in its infancy, \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003ewas well poised to become the book of an era . . . A striking, unsettling novel * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eWithout any exaggeration, I can honestly say that I devoured \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e, in one greedy, uneasy gulp. It’s a taut page-turner – one that starts out as a smart, knowing, contemporary comedy of manners, but quickly spirals into an apocalyptic nightmare so terrifyingly realistic that it sent shivers down my spine * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eFor the reader, the invisible terror outside in \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003eechoes the sense of disquiet today in a world convulsed by the pandemic. There are intense parallels between the unreality of life in the Long Island bolt-hole described in the book and lockdown . . . The novel excels in its dissection of modern liberal America and forces the reader to confront the limits of their own heroism in the face of disaster * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA book that could have been tailor-made for our times, with its tale of racial tensions and an unnatural disaster . . . It’s a close-up narrative, and its strength lies in the emotional pull . . . There’s something for everyone: that is, to terrify everyone, from parents to nature lovers to hypochondriacs * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA page-turner, taking in themes of isolation, race and class . . . As the author of a book about people trapped inside a house by a huge event, desperate for information, Alam is a curious prophet . . . Alam has an almost anthropological eye for the absurdities of the upper-middle class, for the blindness of white people . . . \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003ewas influenced by Jordan Peele’s film \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e, apparent in Alam’s acuity on whiteness. But the closest literary comparison could be Shirley Jackson, whose cold, detached voice can be heard in Alam’s narrator when we are shown glimpses of what is happening in the wider world * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eRumaan Alam creates an atmosphere of dread so convincing and prescient that it stays with the reader long after reading . . . Explores issues of race, class and identity in the face of overwhelming disaster * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eAlam has built an apocalyptic thriller around a single concept: what would you do if the world was crumbling around you? . . . This novel is catching hold of its readers, and it’s easy to see why . . . A bracing read. The story is crafted with a deft lightness of touch and, at a mere 240 pages, it’s brisk and unfaltering. But it’s the eeriness of the burgeoning apocalypse, and the paralytic inability of the protagonists to help themselves, that will stay with you the longest * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003eAn exacting and dread-inducing story of suspicion, prejudice and hysteria . . . It feels so entwined with the DNA of 2020, capturing the hallucinatory quality which time takes on when stuck inside not knowing what the future holds * Esquire *\u003cbr\u003eOnce you read this topical and gripping novel, it’s all you’ll want to talk about * Stylist *\u003cbr\u003eRumaan Alam’s elegant novel presents a scenario familiar to many readers of contemporary fiction in 2020: a mass power meltdown . . . Alam controls the tension by almost imperceptible degrees . . . A wonderful novel about the figurative walls we build to keep the world outside * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eIf the first half can turn a mirror on you, the second half will shatter it . . . Undeniably haunting * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003ePoised to be one of the biggest titles of the fall . . . A comedy of manners wrapped inside a tense disaster plot * New York Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA slippery and duplicitous marvel of a novel . . . \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003eis atmospheric and prescient: its rhythms of comedy alternating with shock and despair mimic so much of the rhythms of life right now . . . A signature novel for this blasted year * NPR *\u003cbr\u003eRarely have I encountered a book so cuttingly prescient about the current emotional atmosphere . . . Alam’s deployment of creepy, inexplicable detail is masterful . . . This is a thrilling book - one that will speak to readers who have felt the terror of isolation in these recent, torturous months and one that will simultaneously, as great books do, lift them out of it * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eAlam has written a genuine literary thriller, one that is also a disturbing window into our precarious age * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThe fall's biggest novel * Entertainment Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eEnthralling . . . Alam keeps close to his characters, who, like insects in acrylic, remain trapped in a state of suspended unease. This, he suggests, is the modern disaster – the precarity of American life, which leaves us unsure, always, if things can get worse . . . Alam’s achievement is to see that his genre’s traditional arc, which relies on the idea of aftermath, no longer makes sense. Today, disaster novels call for something different, a recognition that we won’t find a new normal * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eLike Stephen King’s 1980 novella \u003ci\u003eThe Mist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e expertly illustrates the horror of the unknown, the almost painful humanity we feel when facing down the end and, of course, human nature under duress. During an era of plague, racism, hatred, and division, this tale of a vacation gone awry is terrifyingly prescient * Rolling Stone *\u003cbr\u003eOne of the eeriest, most disturbing stories I've read in some time . . . The contours of everything might be recognisable, but what's contained within is wholly deranged * Refinery 29 *\u003cbr\u003eRiveting and claustrophobic, \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind \u003c\/i\u003einvites us to sit with our discomfort and reflect on our own rushed judgments, delivering a dazzling and dark examination of family, race, class and what matters most when the impossible becomes possible * Esquire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e is that rarest of things: a beautifully written, emotionally resonant page-turner. Alam explores complex ideas about privilege and fate with miraculous wit and grace * Jenny Offill, author of Weather *\u003cbr\u003ePerfectly paced, clever and haunting . . . This is one of those stories that inspires a hungry turn of pages, preceded by that desperate and lovely need to come up for air. So easily the best thing I've read all year * Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an exceptional examination of race and class and what the world looks like when it’s ending – not at all different from the world we are in now * Roxane Gay, author of Hunger *\u003cbr\u003eRumaan Alam's \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e is a canny Trojan horse of a novel, and also a Pandora's Box. Like the family at its center, we're seduced utterly by the bounty and insularity of its world, only to find ourselves, inch by inch, approaching a larger darkness lurking just beyond. 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A prescient book, built for these strange times, sure to entrance and electrify * Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark *\u003cbr\u003eSuspenseful and provocative, Rumaan Alam's third novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e explores how our closest bonds are reshaped--and unexpected new ones are forged--in moments of crisis * Laura Lippman, author of Lady in the Lake *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867480109399,"sku":"9781526672056","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526672056.jpg?v=1722283480"},{"product_id":"once-there-were-wolves-the-instant-new-york-times-bestseller-9781784744403","title":"Once There Were Wolves: The instant NEW YORK","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wild and gripping novel about one woman's quest to reintroduce wolves to the Scottish Highlands at any cost.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInti Flynn arrives in the Scottish Highlands with fourteen grey wolves, a traumatised sister and fierce tenacity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a biologist, she knows the animals are the best hope for rewilding the ruined landscape and she cares little for local opposition. 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