The Strangers
$41.64
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2026
Summary
From the bestselling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Power, a wildly audacious, deeply moving new novel that follows a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet.
They had come from nowhere, and now they were everywhere.
A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home. It captures the first image of a strang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241777664 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241777666 |
| Author: | Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fig Tree |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 138mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
An entirely new species of writing about grief. I loved this weird, warm-blooded, and inquisitive book * Eleanor Catton, author of Birnam Wood and The Luminaries *A multi-layered treat of a novel, wise, honest and wonderfully strange. I loved it * Sarah Waters *Compulsively engrossing … draws us into an uncanny world of hurt and tenderness. Speculative fiction with brains and heart * Emma Donoghue *What a glowing, remarkable, brilliant gift of a book! Truly what the world needs now * Laurie Frankel, author of This Is How It Always Is and Enormous Wings *
About The Author
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman holds degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and Classical Studies, alongside MA degrees in Creative Writing and Classics. She is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, TV producer, and video games creator. Alderman has spent over two decades working in technology startups, a period she now views with some embarrassment due to the initial utopian ideals of the industry.
She is the author of the bestselling, multi-award-winning novel The Power, which was recognized as a book of the year by both Bill Gates and Barack Obama and adapted into a television series for Amazon Prime. Her other works include The Future, The Liars’ Gospel, The Lessons, and Disobedience.
Alderman is also the co-creator of the fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run!, which boasts over ten million players. She writes and presents Human Intelligence, a history of thinking series for BBC Radio 4.
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