Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester (paperback)

Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester (paperback)'Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind bending collection.' TLSHousehold gizmos with a mind of their own. Constant cold calls from unknown numbers. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.

where ancient and youthful meet to form a community rich in culture

its physicality

plants and wildlife - Women on Nature embraces alternative modes of seeing and recording that turn the genre on its head

until he bumps into some animals who desperately need his help - and his clothes

Isn't that amazing

Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it

our ancestors descended from them

Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives

A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete

but throughout the day by introducing micro moments so we never drop the mindfulness ball

I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth - or with such brutal honesty - as only lived experience can tell ' Graeme Armstrong

Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland