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Naomi Alderman (born 1974) is an English novelist, game writer, and television executive producer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel The Power, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017 and has been adapted into a television series for Amazon Studios. Biography Alderman was born in London, the daughter of Geoffrey Alderman, a specialist in Anglo-Jewish history who has described himself as an unconventional Orthodox Jew. Alderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After she left Oxford, she worked in children's publishing and then for a law firm, editing their publications. She went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist. In 2007, The Sunday Times named her their Young Writer of the Year. In 2007, she was named as one of the 25 Writers of the Future by Waterstones. In 2012, Alderman was appointed professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, England. In 2013, she was included in the Granta once-a-decade list of 20 best young writers. She writes a monthly technology column for The Guardian. Alderman became an advocate for feminism in her teenage years and has since supported women's rights, which has influenced her works. She stated in a 2018 New York Times interview, "When I was a teenager in the 1990s, it was a common thing among young women to say that feminism's battles are won. Now I think it's very horrifically obvious that that is not the case." She wrote The Power to address points made by the fourth-wave feminism movement and cites the Me Too movement as an inspiration and a source of similar dialogue. Works Alderman was the lead writer for Perplex City, an alternative reality game, at the company Mind Candy. She went on to become lead writer on other apps including Zombies, Run! and The Walk. In 2018 The Walk was turned into a podcast and released through Panoply Media. Alderman's literary début came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received, if somewhat controversial, novel about a North London rabbi's bisexual daughter living in New York, which won Alderman the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers, the 2007 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and a feature as one of the Waterstones 25 Writers for the Future. It led her to reject her life as a practising Jew. "I went into the novel religious and by the end I wasn't. I wrote myself out of it," she told Claire Armitstead of The Guardian in 2016. Her second novel, The Lessons, was published in 2010. Her third novel, The Liars' Gospel (Viking), with Jesus portrayed as the Jewish preacher Yehoshuah, was published in paperback in 2012. Reviewing the book, Shoshi Ish-Horowicz in the Jewish Renaissance magazine described it as "an entertaining, engaging read" but found the story it told "uncomfortable and problematic. Your enjoyment of the novel will depend on how you respond to the premise that Jesus was, potentially, an 'inconsequential preacher'". Set in and around Jerusalem between Pompey's Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) and Titus' Siege of Jerusalem (70), it is narrated in four main sections from the perspective of four key figures: Mary, Judas Iscariot, Caiaphas and Barabbas. All three novels have been serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. She wrote the narrative for The Winter House, an online interactive linear short story visualised by Jey Biddulph. The project was commissioned by BookTrust as part of the Story campaign, supported by Arts Council England. Her Doctor Who novel Borrowed Time was published in June 2011. In 2012, Alderman was selected as a protégée by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic programme that pairs masters in their disciplines with emerging talents for a year of one-to-one creative exchange. Atwood and Alderman co-wrote “The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home” and self-published the work online on Wattpad in 2012. Alderman's fourth novel, The Power, was published in 2016. The Power is dedicated to and influenced by Atwood. The Power won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2017. Alderman has confirmed that she has sold the rights of The Power to Sister Pictures, the same company who produced Broadchurch, after receiving eleven offers. She is hoping for a multi-season run to explore and delve into the world she created in The Power. Bibliography —— (2006). Disobedience (hardcover 1st ed.). Touchstone Books. p. 227. ISBN 978-0743291569. —— (2010). The Lessons (paperback ed.). Viking Books. p. 288. ISBN 978-0670916290. —— (2011). Borrowed Time (hardback ed.). BBC Books. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-84990-233-5. —— (2012). The Liars' Gospel (hardcover 1st ed.). Viking Books. p. 272. ISBN 978-0670919901. —— (2016). The Power (hardcover 2017 ed.). Little, Brown. p. 400. ISBN 978-0316547611. —— (2023). The Future (hardcover 2023 ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 432. ISBN 978-1668025680. References External links Personal blog Alderman at The Guardian – indexes her contributions Alderman at agent David Higham "Naomi Alderman's first novel ...", The Guardian, 20 February 2006, based on an interview Interview in Scotland on Sunday (April 2010) at The Scotsman "UK authors of the future unveiled" (2007) at BBC News Naomi Alderman at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records. Discover the Naomi Alderman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Naomi Alderman books.
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Disobedience
Naomi AldermanNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING RACHEL WEISZ AND RACHEL MCADAMS AUTHOR OF ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE READS From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power comes a ...
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Das Verschwinden
Sandra Newman & Milena AdamIn nur einem Augenblick verschwinden auf der ganzen Welt alle Menschen mit einem YChromosom urplötzlich, ohne jede Spur. Auch Jane hat ihren Mann und ihren kleinen Sohn verloren. ...
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The Tiled House
J.S. Le FanuThe very best of Le Fanu’s supernatural fiction, including such classics as: ‘Schalken the Painter’, ‘Squire Toby's Will’, ‘Mr Justice Harbottle’, ‘The Familiar’, ‘Green Tea’, ‘Mad...
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The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine PizanChristine de Pizan (c.13641430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after read...
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Into the Mist
P. C. CastFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast comes INTO THE MIST, the first book in a pulsepounding dystopian duology for our times. Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in...
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In Constant Fear
Peter LineyHe thought he'd escaped. But peace is hard to find and harder still to keep . . . The third in Peter Liney's Detainee series.Over a year has passed since Clancy escaped the hell t...
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Camp Zero
Michelle Min SterlingINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club PickIn a nearfuture northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective...
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The Heads of Cerberus
Francis Stevens & Naomi AldermanA rediscovered classic of science fiction, set in a dystopian twentysecondcentury society where the winner takes all, a precursor to The Hunger Games by one of the genre’s first ma...
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Kipps
H.G. Wells & Professor Simon JamesOrphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that ...
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Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw
Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her f...
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Julia
Sandra Newman & Karoline HippeMit seinem berühmten Roman "1984" gelang George Orwell eine visionäre Dystopie über eine Welt der totalen Überwachung. Nun wird dieser Klassiker zu ganz neuem Leben erweckt und au...
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All That Is Solid
Danny DorlingHousing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that ho...
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Berlin Finale
Heinz Rein & Shaun WhitesideOne of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third ReichApril 1945, the...
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A Planet for the President
Alistair BeatonThis is a story written over a decade ago.Before Fake News, or Alternative Facts, or even social media.It told the story of a nottoodistant future, which really was not too distant...
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Meanwhile Street
Miranda GloverIt's early morning and Meanwhile Street thinks it's waking to a regular Wednesday in May. Soon a disconcerting sound alerts Maggie and Gordon that something's not right. Throughout...
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Hindu Myths
Wendy DonigerRecorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventyfive semin...
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The Temple-goers
Aatish TaseerA young man returns home to Delhi after several years abroad and resumes his place among the city's cosmopolitan elite a world of fashion designers, media moguls and the idle rich...
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
G. K. ChestertonThe third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's...
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The Forsyte Saga
John GalsworthyIn this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflict...
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Las brujas de su majestad
Juno DawsonENTRE NOSOTROS SE OCULTA UN AQUELARRE SECRETO DE BRUJAS.Conocidas como el Real Aquelarre de Su Majestad, protegen a la Corona y a su país de las fuerzas mágicas y de las entidades ...
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Everything About You
Heather Child'Black Mirror meets Gone Girl' Rosamund Lupton, Richard and Judy and Sunday Times bestseller'Amazing, creepy, twisty and clever' Karen Dionne, author of The MarshKing's DaughterThi...
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The Need
Helen PhillipsLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time“An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from on...
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Into The Fire
Peter LineyThe second in Peter Liney's Detainee series. Clancy thought escape from the island would be enough. He was wrong.Having escaped the island a wasteland that housed those no longer ...
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The Loosening Skin
Aliya WhiteleyShortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, John W. Campbell Award, British Fantasy Awards and the Brave New Words Award.A gripping and strange story of shedding skins, love and mo...
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Still
Adam Thorpe' outwardly the unfilmable script of a wouldbe English cineste, one Richard Arthur Thornby currently lecturing in Texas on the cinema. He airs a hypothetical movie of both his ...
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The Land Lubbers Lying Down Below
Helen Dunmore'Tonight it is the concert. Two Prodigies of Nature are coming to play in my lady's ballroom. As soon as the concert begins I understand why the whole world comes to stare and list...
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Unter der Haut
Naomi Alderman, A.L. Kennedy, Philip Kerr & Thomas Lynch15 der beeindruckendsten und talentiertesten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart erzählen in diesem Buch ihre ganz persönliche Geschichte über den Körper: Naomi Alderman etwa entschlüssel...
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The Sleeper Awakes
H.G. WellsA troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleeplike trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, inv...
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Strong Female Lead
Arwa Mahdawi'Fascinating . . . the most incredible argument for why a female model of leadership might actually be the more powerful and sustainable one' Scarlett Curtis'A bold, rigorous and l...
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The Awkward Age
Henry James & Ronald BlytheMaking her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, th...
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Out of the Dark
Robert W. ChambersFor the first time in one volume, the best stories of one of America’s most popular classic authors of the supernatural.Robert William Chambers’ The King in Yellow (1895) has long ...
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Wolves
Simon IngsA chilling literary dystopia for those who love Iain Banks and JG Ballard.Conrad is desperate for an escape after a devastating accident changes his way of life. When his childhood...
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Astra
Naomi FoyleIsland is a Gaian paradise in the middle of a blasted world but its success comes at a dark price.Like every child in IsLand, all Astra Ordott has ever wanted is to get her Securi...
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince m...
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The Rig
Roger LevyOn a desert planet, two boys meet, sparking a friendship that will change human society forever. On the windswept world of Bleak, a string of murders lead a writer to a story with ...
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How to be a Princess
Katy BirchallAs Meghan Markle once said: 'With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass slipper and more on pushing through...
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The Blood of the Hoopoe
Naomi FoyleIs Astra ready to accept her destiny? A gripping novel for 'Hunger Games fans of all ages' says Library Journal. War is breaking out in Kadingir. Still struggling to accept her rol...
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Silenced
Ann ClaycombA powerful fairy tale of four women each cursed by the same abusive man. Gripping and essential, it will captivate readers of Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Heather Walter's Malice ...
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Tell Me an Ending
Jo HarkinNamed a Best Science Fiction Book of 2022 by The New York Times“Sharply, beautifully written.” The New York Times Book Review “Intriguing, frightening, witty, and humane.” The Wall...