not only an unputdownable tale of revenge, it is also a masterclass in how to teach Shakespeare to those who think they won't like it Alice O'Keefe, BooksellerĪtwood joins the roll call of literary stars retelling Shakespeare's plays. The new novels promise an intriguing opportunity to revisit the tales we know so well and see them in a new light. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.Ītwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays.

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It’s magic! But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Here, Felix and his inmate actors will put on his Tempest and snare the traitors who destroyed him. Also brewing revenge.Īfter twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. His productions have amazed and confounded. ‘Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun.' Observerįelix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. The 'riotous, insanely readable' ( Observer) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS. The 'riotous, insanely readable' new novel from the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE

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