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The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage - and a powerful meditation on the history we all share

Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning

and across the world clouds are gathering

In the ruins of civilization

She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors

Piranesi searchfilter_Korean War The Underground Railroad is bothNew York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others.