Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. 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. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. 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. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade, and in 2022 Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. 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. Its sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. 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. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade, and in 2022 Burning Questions, a collection of essays, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
The 'riotous, insanely readable' new novel from the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction,
poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The
Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam
trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in
2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one
bestseller and shared the Booker Prize. Her most recent
publications are the poetry collections Dearly and Paper Boat;
Burning Questions, a selection of essays; and Old Babes in the
Wood, a volume of short stories.
Atwood is a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and
has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for
Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace
Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement
Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has also worked as a
cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She
lives in Toronto, Canada.
Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun... The novel
builds to a fantastic climax of dark calamity... There is so much
exuberance and heart and wonder in this novel that the only thing I
want to happen next is for Atwood to rewrite the whole of
Shakespeare. (No offence, Will.)
*Observer*
A triumph... The book illuminates the breadth and depth of the
whole play. The troupe's workshops on it fizz with perception as
Atwood transmits the pleasurable buzz of exploring a literary
masterpiece. There won't be a more glowing tribute to Shakespeare
in his 400th anniversary year
*Sunday Times*
Atwood reinterprets the play as a heartbreaking novel, told in
gorgeous yet economical prose
*New York Times Book Review*
Surpassingly brilliant... without question the cleverest
"neo-Shakespearean novel" I have ever read... the learning and the
critical analysis are worn exceptionally lightly, always
subordinated to wit, invention, characterisation and slick twists
of plot... wonderfully ingenious
*The Times*
An absolute triumph... ravishing... I am not ashamed to say that I
didn't just have a lump in my throat by the end of Hag-Seed, I had
tears on the fringed curtains of mine eyes
*Scotland on Sunday*
At its heart Hag-Seed is a love letter to Shakespeare and a
passionate treatise on the power of language, poetry and the arts.
But it is also a study of loss and love and the power of
forgiveness to heal when all seemed lost
*Daily Express*
Atwood never loses sight of the original… Hag-Seed is not only a
fine example of the shape-shifting versatility of Shakespeare’s
texts, but a successful novel in its own right… Hag-Seed displays
Atwood’s inventiveness at its shining best, a novel that enchants
on its own terms and returns you to the enchantments of the
original
*Financial Times*
The novel shines a thrilling new light on The Tempest's themes of
revenge and forgiveness... as well as making a strong case for
art's ability to "set you free" by helping you understand
yourself.
*Sunday Telegraph*
An unqualified success... an enlightening and exciting exploration
of Shakespeare's themes... A wonderfully intelligent book
*Daily Mail*
Margaret Atwood throws a handful of theatrical glittery confetti
over Shakespeare's The Tempest ... A compelling tale of a bereaved
father -- haunted by the memory of his lost daughter -- who learns
to face up to "the plain, unvarnished grime of real life",
transforming it into something buoyant, resonant and hopeful
*Sunday Express*
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