How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures.

“Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.”

From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape

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Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.

A collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect.

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How can we live on our planet?Is it true? And is it fair?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?Find answers to these questions and more in Margaret’s new collection of essays, Burning Questions, publishing in March 2022

A new poetry collection by Margaret Atwood, entitled DEARLY, will be published on 10 November 2020. DEARLY is Atwood’s first collection in over a decade.

By turns moving, playful and wise, these poems are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, aliens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.

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In The Heart Goes Last, bestselling author Margaret Atwood tells the story of Charmaine and Stan, a couple living in their car and surviving almost entirely on tips. Their lives take a drastic turn, however, when they sign up for a ‘social experiment’ that provides them with jobs and a home. The caveat, though, is that the couple must do a stint in a prison cell every second month, while an ‘alternate’ pair occupies their house. According to the publisher, Charmaine and Stan become obsessed with their alternates, and ‘the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire begin to take over’.

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