A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This collection of short stories takes us into familiar territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour & the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.

These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), the future and theology.

This is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'. The book brings together her three Ellman Lectures in 2010 - 'Flying Rabbits', 'Burning Bushes', and 'Dire Cartographies'.

* An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best.

A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers, a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. But Giant Pigoons and malevolent Painballers threaten to attack.

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the book's title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide and...

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.