Naomi Alderman

In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.

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The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.

A small, close-knit Orthodox Jewish community in London is the setting for a revealing look at religion and sexuality in Alderman's frank yet heartfelt debut novel, Disobedience. The story begins with the death of the community's esteemed rabbi, which sets in motion plans for a memorial service and the search for a replacement. The rabbi's nephew and likely successor, Dovid, calls his cousin Ronit in New York to tell her that her father has died. Ronit, who left the community long ago to build a life for herself as a career woman, returns home when she hears the news, and her reappearance exposes tears in the fabric of the community.Steeped in Jewish philosophy and teachings, Disobedience is a perceptive and thoughtful exploration of the laws and practices that have governed Judaism for centuries, and continue to hold sway today. Throughout the novel, Alderman retells stories from the Torah -- Judaism's fundamental source -- and the interplay between these tales and the struggles of the novel's unique characters wields enormous power and wisdom, and will surely move readers to tears.

Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of students: glamorous Emmanuella, who always has a new boyfriend in tow; Franny and Simon, best friends and occasional lovers; musician Jess, whose calm exterior hides passionate depths. And James, already damaged by Oxford and looking for a group to belong to. For a time they live in a charmed world of learning and parties and love affairs. But university is no grounding for adult life, and when, years later, tragedy strikes they are entirely unprepared. Universal in its themes of ambition, desire and betrayal, this spellbinding novel reflects the truth that the lessons life teaches often come too late.

An award-winning writer re-imagines the life of Jesus, from the points of view of four people closest to him before his death. This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith, the High Priest of the Temple tries to keep the peace, and a rebel named Bar-Avo strives to bring that peace tumbling down. It was a time of political power-play and brutal tyranny. Men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. In the midst of it all, one inconsequential preacher died. And either something miraculous happened, or someone lied.Viscerally powerful in its depictions of the period - massacres and riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal - The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story entirely new.

'You want more time Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer...'Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train's late, the lift jams. If only he'd had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They'll lend him some - at a very reasonable rate of interest.Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go undercover at the bank. But they have to move fast to stop Symington and Blenkinsop before they cash in their investments.A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

A new version of this much-loved anthology, with a brand-new story featuring the brand-new Thirteenth Doctor from literary sensation Naomi Alderman!Twelve wonderful tales of adventure, science, magic, monsters and time travel - featuring all twelve Doctors - are waiting for you in this very special Doctor Who book.And now they're joined by a very exciting, and very exclusive, new tale - written by Naomi Alderman, author of The Power - that will star the Thirteenth Doctor, as she battles to save the universe with her three close and trusted friends.Other authors featured are: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black.

It's barely a few months since the shambling dead began to rise.Now nine people are trapped together in an English country house by the zombie horde outside. There's a journalist, a student, a professor, a surgeon, a housekeeper, a math teacher, a bank clerk, a taciturn Scotswoman, and a celebrity actor. They are strangers to each other. There would be no reason for any of them to harm the others. And yet... before their first night in the house is over, one of them will be dead, and it will be clear to the others that among their number is a murderer.Set in the universe of the worldwide best-selling app Zombies, Run!, this is a murder mystery like no other. Why would anyone still want to kill a fellow human, even after the zombie apocalypse? And having started, can they be stopped? The desire for vengeance, after all, is the way of all flesh.

Time Lapse was the thirteenth Puffin eshort released. Like Lights Out before it, it was released long after the original 2013 run, introducing a new Doctor. Time Lapse features the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions Ryan, Yaz and Graham.

An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman'Alderman is one of our most surprising and delightful public intellectuals, and this book grapples wonderfully with our current schisms and their historical precedents' JON RONSON'Alderman helps us see the digital information crisis with fresh eyes, sharing profound wisdom and showing us how to avoid sacrificing our humanity for the sake of being right on the internet' OLIVER BURKEMANWhat’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we’re living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis.The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in new ways, it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world. There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity’s third information crisis.The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and the second, the invention of the printing press 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed, as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious. By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present, and prepare for our future.Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today explores how new technology opens up new ways of being and helps us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload.

In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23 hours in total, they throw light on the revolutionary visionaries who defined how we see the world, from pioneers and prophets to inventors, experimenters and creators.Among the topics explored are feuding dinosaur hunters, jumping genes, the engine that nearly ran out of steam, the day the Earth stopped standing still, how laughing gas was discovered, the first female professional scientist in Britain, and how an eel sparked our interest in electricity. So, if you want to know more about a medieval bishop's Big Bang theory, how Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics, the medieval equivalent of GPS, the woman who tamed lightning, Cyrano de Bergerac's designs for a spaceship, and what happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge, our presenters are here to fill you in. Helping them discover the fact behind the fiction are a host of scientists and experts, including Professor Edith Hall, Hannah Fry, Tim Spector, Marcus du Sautoy, Richard Wiseman, Natalie Haynes and Tracy Chevalier.First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following The Bone Wars 10 June 2015 The engine that ran out of steam 17 June 2015 DNA's Third Man 24 June 2015 How Perkin brought purple to the people 1 July 2015 Seeing is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown 8 July 2015 Submarine for a Stuart King 6 January 2016 How an eel sparked our interest in electricity 13 January 2016 The meteorite and the hidden hoax 20 January 2016 The duchess who gatecrashed science 27 January 2016 Einstein's Fridge 3 February 2016 Florence Statistician 18 May 2016 Chaucer's Astrolabe - The Medieval GPS 25 May 2016 Paul Ehrlich's 'Magic Bullet' and the Cure for Syphilis 1 June 2016 Maxwell's Demon 8 June 2016 Blood Banks 15 June 2016 The Day The Earth Stopped Standing Still 30 November 2016 How Much Testosterone Makes You a Man 7 December 2016 The man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago 14 December 2016 The Woman Who Tamed Lightning 21 December 2016 Mesmerism 28 December 2016 Jumping Genes 4 January 2017 The Birth of Photography 11 January 2017 Pavlov and his Dogs 7 June 2017 The Medieval Bishop's Big Bang Theory 14 June 2017 The Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees 28 June 2017 Caroline Herschel and the Comets 5 July 2017 A wolf, a goat and some cabbages 22 November 2017 The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars 29 November 2017 Lise Humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb 6 December 2017 How Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas 13 December 2017 Michael Faraday and his 'instructess' in chemistry 20 December 2017 17th-Century Space The Real Cyrano de Bergerac 13 June 2018 Urea and the Wohler Myth 20 June 2018 Descartes' Daughter 27 June 2018 The Murdered Mathematician 4 July 2018 Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting 11 July 2018 Eddington's Eclipse and Einstein's Celebrity 12 December 2018 Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms 19 December 2018 Kepler's Snowflakes 26 December 2018 Lady Mary Montagu's Smallpox Experiment 2 January 2019 Ibn al-Haytham and How We See 9 January 2019 Galileo's lost letter 13 August 2019 Madame Lavoisier's Translation of Oxygen 20 August 2019 Ignaz The Hand Washer 27 August 2019 Ramon the medieval prophet of computer science 3 September 2019 Alexis Carrel and the immortal chicken heart 10 September 2019 Mary Somerville, pioneer of popular science writing 11 December 2019 Sophia Jex-Blake, first woman doctor in Scotland 18 December 2019 Isaac Newton and the story of the apple 25 December 2019

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Carsten Höller: Decision is the beautiful double publication accompanying the Hayward Gallery solo exhibition of acclaimed Belgian artist Carsten Höller. This publication features new short stories by six writers – including Naomi Alderman, Jenni Fagan, Jonathan Lethem, Deborah Levy, Helen Oyeyemi and Ali Smith – responding to the theme of decision-making, as well as a photographic interpretation of the multiple ways of experiencing Höller’s immersive exhibition and an interview with the artist by Ralph Rugoff, curator of the show.

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Titles In This The Future [Hardcover] The Power [Paperback] Naomi Alderman 2 Books Collection Set (The Power, The Future): The Future [Hardcover]: The latest novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future is where the money is.The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction.The Future is a handful of friends hatching a daring plan.The Future is the greatest heist ever? Or the cataclysmic end of civilisation…The Future is here. The 'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.'Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light. 9780008309138/9780316570602

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"Il savait d’expérience qu’un orgasme extraordinaire au point d’effacer votre être, suivi d’un sommeil profond, d’un bain glacé et d’un long footing, générerait des idées qui vaudraient entre dix et vingt milliards de dollars, amortis sur une période de dix ans." La fin des années 2020 approche et, entre cyberscience décadente, intelligence artificielle omniprésente et crise climatique plus qu’alarmante, la Terre continue de dérailler. Lenk, Zimri et Ellen font partie de ces milliardaires ayant fait fortune dans la Silicon Valley. Bien que rivaux, ils ont tout prévu ensemble pour survivre si un jour l’humanité venait à s’effondrer. Or ce jour semble être arrivé. Mais c’est compter sans une jeune influenceuse, Lai Zhen, ancienne réfugiée hongkongaise, qui mène l’enquête sur les plans secrets des ultrariches tout en rêvant d’un avenir où les technologies serviraient enfin des causes nobles.

Author and narrator of The Power, Naomi Alderman and Adjoa Andoh, join Laurence Howell in the Audible Studios for a discussion about the audiobook version of this dystopian novel.