They (Faber Editions)

<b>As performed by Maxine Peake ('visionary'): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.</b><br><br>'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' <b>Margaret Atwood</b><br>'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' <b>Emily St. John Mandel</b><br><br>This is Britain: but not as we know it. <br>THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.<br>THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity.<br>Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...<br><br>Lost for half a century, newly introduced by <b>Carmen Maria Machado</b>, Kay Dick's <i>They</i> (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning.<br><br>'Every bit as creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.' <b>Ian Rankin</b><br>'Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it!' <b>Rumaan Alam</b><br>'Crystalline ... The signature of an enchantress.' <b>Edna O'Brien</b><br>'I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.' <b>Lauren Groff</b><br>'Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.' <b>Kiran Millwood Hargrave</b><br>'Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads.'<b> Eimear McBride</b><br>'A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.' <b>Claire-Louise Bennett</b><br>'A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.' <b>Andrew Hunter Murray</b><br>'Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future.' <b>Salena Godden</b> <b>As performed by Maxine Peake ('visionary'): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer.</b><br><br>'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' <b>Margaret Atwood</b><br>'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' <b>Emily St. John Mandel</b><br><br>This is Britain: but not as we know it. <br>THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.<br>THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity.<br>Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...<br><br>Lost for half a century, newly introduced by <b>Carmen Maria Machado</b>, Kay Dick's <i>They</i> (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning.<br><br>'Every bit as creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.' <b>Ian Rankin</b><br>'Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it!' <b>Rumaan Alam</b><br>'Crystalline ... The signature of an enchantress.' <b>Edna O'Brien</b><br>'I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.' <b>Lauren Groff</b><br>'Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.' <b>Kiran Millwood Hargrave</b><br>'Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads.'<b> Eimear McBride</b><br>'A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.' <b>Claire-Louise Bennett</b><br>'A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.' <b>Andrew Hunter Murray</b><br>'Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future.' <b>Salena Godden</b>