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Features short fictions and prose poems such as bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves, the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting, a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year olds, and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark.

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Große Autorinnen in einem noch nie gehörten Stimmenmix! Ich schreibe, also bin ich Schriftstellerin: Wenn es so einfach wäre, gäbe es die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung nicht. Ist Dichten das große Glück, ein großer Kraftakt - oder beides? Wie entstehen Ideen, aus welchen Situationen und Begegnungen schöpfen Autorinnen ihre Inspiration? Wie finden sie ihre Form? Und wie ergeht es Schriftstellerinnen im Literaturbetrieb? In den Erzählungen, ...

Seven special editions of Margaret Atwood's finest novels, celebrating her 70th birthday

Seven special editions of Margaret Atwood's finest novels, published to celebrate her 70th birthday

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.

Atwood's futuristic novel, now in an Everyman Classic edition.

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From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes "Writing with Intent, " the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005.

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Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around-and fast. The...

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Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, "Surfacing" is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleThis splendid volume of short fiction testifies to Margaret Atwood's bracing honesty and startlingly original voice. In her hands, ordinary people-farmers, birdwatchers, adolescent lovers, elderly neighbors, pregnant women-are anything but ordinary. A poet waylaid by an epic nosebleed, an awkward student trailed by an obtuse stalker, a jaded travel writer stranded on a life ra...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleJoan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. After a volume of her poetry becomes an unexpected literary sensation, her new fame attracts a blackmailer thr...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale In each of these tales Margaret Atwood deftly illuminates the shape of a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of adolescence through the passions of youth into the precarious complexities of middle age. The past resurfaces in the present in ways both subtle and dramatic: the body of a lost Arctic explorer emerges from the i...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleRennie Wilford is a journalist who writes about the latest trends and considers herself an expert on the superficial surfaces of life. When her own life takes a dark turn, she seeks to recuperate by flying to the Caribbean to research a fluffy travel piece. But her carelessly chosen destination, the tiny island of St. Antoine, is on the verge of a violent revolution and Rennie...

Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse yet, she has the crazy feeling that she's being eaten. Marian ought to feel consumed with passion, but she really just feels...consumed. A brilliant and powerful work rich in irony and metaphor, "The Edible Woman" is an unforgettable masterpiece by a true master of contemp...