One of the New Windmills series for schools this is the story of Offred one of the few women in the Republic of Gilead left with functioning ovaries whose only function it is to breed If she deviates she will be hanged as a dissenter But Offred is determined to find a way out ...

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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOODThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived & executed this powerful vision of the future gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's irony wit & astute perception Don't expect to be gripped by a more potent or involving drama this year' Telegraph 'I can't think of another television event that has hit quite such a nerve & gone on resounding & resonating worrying & creeping into your soul & into your dreams quite like The Handmaid's Tale has It's as relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it in Berlin in 1985 & while all this continues to be real we need The Handmaid's Tale
- to keep reminding & resonating & ringing Dong dong dong' Guardian

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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs
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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire
- neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived & executed this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony wit & astute perception
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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIES' It isn't running away they're afraid of We wouldn't get far It's those other escapes the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge' Offred is a Handmaid She has only one function to breed If she refuses to play her part she will like all dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness She may walk daily to the market & utter demure words to other Handmaid's but her role is fixed her freedom a forgotten concept Offred remembers her old life
- love family a job access to the news It has all been taken away But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire

Includes:: exclusive content In The ' Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel' Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph


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Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace & so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner'
- she also launches a new enterprise of her own the Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe Grace Makutsi is a lady with a business plan but who could predict temperamental chefs drunken waiters & more? Luckily help is at hand from the only person in Gaborone more gently determined than Mma Makutsi Mma Ramotswe of course

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Mukesh Agarwal sits alone in the Black Eagle pub unaware that a riot is brewing or that Billy his youngest son is still out on his bike A mile away in the family home in Church Street Anila one of the three Agarwal girls is reading Smash Hits & listening to Radio One as she sprawls across the bottom bunk oblivious to the monumental tragedy that is about to hit her family It is 1981 & Handsworth is teetering on the brink of collapse Factories are closing unemployment is high the National Front are marching & the neglected inner cities are ablaze as riots breakout across Thatcher's fractured Britain The Agarwals are facing their own nightmares but family pop music protest unexpected friendships & a community that refuses to disappear all contribute to easing their personal pain & that of Handsworth itself THE HANDSWORTH TIMES is a story of loss & transition & pulling together because ultimately there is such a thing as society ...