The Strangers by Naomi Alderman - ISBN: 9780241845080
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New creatures arrive, blurring reality, grief, and our place on Earth.
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The Strangers

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    22 September 2026

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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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241845080
ISBN-10:0241845084
Author:Naomi Alderman
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Fig Tree
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:22 September 2026
Weight:300g
Dimensions:216mm x 135mm x 20mm
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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, 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.

Her novel The Power was a bestseller and received multiple awards. It was selected as a book of the year by Bill Gates and Barack Obama and adapted into a TV series for Amazon Prime. Her other works include The Future, The Liars’ Gospel, The Lessons, and Disobedience.

She is also the co-creator of the fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run!, which boasts over ten million players. Naomi also writes and presents Human Intelligence, a history of thinking series for BBC Radio 4.

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