The Handmaids Tale

A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. More

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Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. More

Margaret Atwood's popular dystopian novel A Handmaid's Tale, engages the reader with a broad range of issues relating to power, gender and religious politics. This guide provides an overview of the key critical debates and interpretations of the novel and encourages you to engage with key questions… More

The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. The other inspiration is the world we've been living in.' Margaret Atwood'THE… More

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story of Offred, one of the few women in the Republic of Gilead left with functioning ovaries, whose only function it is to breed. If she deviates, she will be hanged as a dissenter. But Offred is determined to find a way out. More

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Explore the terrifying world of Gilead with this behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy award-winning show The Handmaid's Tale. More

Philosophers look beyond the sea of red dresses to reveal insights about gender inequality, religious oppression, power, and violence. More

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A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of Margaret Atwood's chilling dystopian novel. More

A collection of short stories from the author of "Cat's Eye" and "The Handmaid's Tale". More

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARD: The Handmaid's Tale meets Mean Girls in the award-winning, critically acclaimed debut More

The story of Nina X's imprisonment, and her path to eventual freedom, is compelling and chilling and all too believable. She is a character to stand alongside Offred of The Handmaid's Tale and Jack of Room More

27-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale, and her journey to find freedom abroad in India, Germany and the UK as a young woman. More

…comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding of a kibbutz in 1920s Palestine, for readers of WHEN I LIVED IN MODERN TIMES, THE HANDMAID'S TALE or THE POWER. 'We came into their valley at dawn'. From three vastly different points of view, Alison Pick relates the story of a group of… More

…interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present. As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. â It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,â… More