The Strangers
$61.27
- Hardcover
288 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 i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241777664 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241777666 |
| Author: | Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fig Tree |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 145mm x 224mm |
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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 *
A profoundly strange and deeply marvellous book about grief. It’s been pure joy to live for a while inside Naomi Alderman’s brain * Lucy Worsley, author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman: *
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman holds degrees in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, Classical Studies, Creative Writing, and Classics. She is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, TV producer, and video game creator. With over 20 years of experience in technology startups, she reflects on her early utopian beliefs about “making the world a better place” with a sense of slight embarrassment at her past naivety.
Her bestselling novel, The Power, has received multiple awards and was selected as a book of the year by Bill Gates and Barack Obama. It has also been adapted into a television series for Amazon Prime. Her other published works include The Future, The Liars’ Gospel, The Lessons, and Disobedience.
Alderman is also the co-creator of Zombies, Run!, a fitness game and audio adventure with over ten million players. She writes and presents Human Intelligence, a history of thinking series on BBC Radio 4.
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