On Tuesday 10th September 2019, in the literary event of the year, Margaret Atwood will publish The Testaments, the electrifying sequel to her celebrated novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
On publication day, Waterstones Liverpool One will receive three highly sought-after signed copies of The Testaments. The autographed editions, from a limited number to be signed by the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, will be awarded to three lucky customers selected at random from those who have pre-ordered their copy at Waterstones on 12 College Lane before 3rd September 2019*.
Waterstones Liverpool One will mark the launch of The Testaments with a late opening on Monday 9th September. The bookshop will close as normal at 8pm, and then re-open at 9:30pm – 12:30am, to allow customers to purchase The Testaments from 12:01am onwards. During the evening Waterstones Liverpool One will celebrate by hosting a The Handmaid’s Tale themed quiz and reading group. Customers are welcome to browse and shop as normal, and the bookshop will be offering double stamps for any purchases made on the evening. The Waterstones Café will also be open, serving The Testaments/The Handmaid’s Tale themed food and beverages.
Waterstones Bookshop Manager, Kate Sutton says:
“Waterstones Liverpool couldn’t be more excited for the release of The Testaments. There is so much passion, knowledge, and enthusiasm amongst our booksellers for what is the most anticipated read of 2019. The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the bookshop’s all time best-selling and most discussed titles, and our customers are thrilled and more than a little curious to return to Gilead! We’ll be celebrating in our bookshop with a midnight opening and reading groups, we also have three signed copies to give away to customers who pre-order in advance.”
Published in 1985, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic work of feminist fiction that strongly resonates with our times. With its powerful exploration of female oppression and authoritarian rule, The Handmaid’s Tale has grown in significance since publication, becoming a rallying call at women’s marches around the world and taking on a new life in an acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning television adaptation.
At the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. Set 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale’s ambiguous climax, and unconnected to the second season of the television series, The Testaments will answer the questions that have tantalised readers for decades.answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades:Since The Handmaid’s Tale was first published in 1985, Margaret Atwood‘s vision has only grown in significance, becoming a rallying call at women’s marches around the world following the election of Donald Trump, and taking on a new life in an acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning television adaptation.
Set 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale, and unconnected to the second series of the television series, The Testaments finally reveals, for the very first time, Margaret Atwood‘s vision of Gilead’s future.
An unforgettable portrait of defiance and authoritarian rule, The Handmaid’s Tale a classic dystopian vision of a terrifyingly believable future. A powerful, devastatingly wry exploration of female oppression, it has resounding resonance for our times.A classic work of feminist fiction, a frighteningly real dystopia that speaks afresh to every new generation of readers.
The Book of Dust is a work in three parts, like His Dark Materials. 22 years after Northern Lights (July 1995) – the first of his world-famous His Dark Materials trilogy, which has sold more than 17.5m copies in over 40 languages – The Book of Dust will return to the parallel world that has enthralled readers young and old.
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his dæmon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them; a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua . . .
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