![]() ![]() ![]() Completely got under my skin.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Lush, hypnotic, compulsive. The signature of an enchantress.' Edna O'Brien 'I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.' Lauren Groff 'Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. 'Delicious and sexy and downright chilling. Lost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick's They (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. Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. ![]() THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. Soon the National Gallery is purged eerie towers survey the coast mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist. THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. ![]() John Mandel 'As creepy, tense and strange as when I first read it 40 years ago.' Ian Rankin This is Britain: but not as we know it. Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood 'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer. ![]()
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