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Naomi Alderman

Biography

Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is the international bestselling author of THE STRANGERS, THE FUTURE and THE POWER, which won the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Alderman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was chosen by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. As a video games designer, she is the cocreator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone exercise adventure game Zombies, Run! She is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and lives in London.

Naomi Alderman

Books by Naomi Alderman

The Strangers
by Naomi Alderman - Fiction

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 a strange new animal. Suddenly these “mimmoths” are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they’ve come from. As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief, the mimmoths spread. They seem harmless but oddly intelligent. Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably?

The Future
by Naomi Alderman - Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. If the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon are starting to come true, how much future is actually left? Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, an internet-famous survivalist named Lai Zhen flees from an assassin. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future? Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion.

The Power
by Naomi Alderman - Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction

In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place. There's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power --- they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.