{"product_id":"they","title":"They","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs performed by Maxine Peake (''visionary''): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!'' \u003cb\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A masterpiece of creeping dread.'' \u003cb\u003eEmily St. John Mandel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Britain: but not as we know it. \u003cbr\u003eTHEY 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.\u003cbr\u003eTHEY capture dissidents – writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless – in military sweeps, ‘curing’ these subversives of individual identity.\u003cbr\u003eSurvivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost for half a century, newly introduced by \u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e, Kay Dick''s \u003ci\u003eThey\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Every bit as creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.'' \u003cb\u003eIan Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it!'' \u003cb\u003eRumaan Alam\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Crystalline ... The signature of an enchantress.'' \u003cb\u003eEdna O''Brien\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I''m pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.'' \u003cb\u003eLauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.'' \u003cb\u003eKiran Millwood Hargrave\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads.''\u003cb\u003e Eimear McBride\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.'' \u003cb\u003eClaire-Louise Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.'' \u003cb\u003eAndrew Hunter Murray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future.'' \u003cb\u003eSalena Godden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57309559685502,"sku":"NW9780571370863","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571370863.jpg?v=1778513797","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/they","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}