Time as Conflict

Time as Conflict
Author: J.T. Fraser
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3034865163

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Author: Jane Rogers
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062130811

In a chilling future, one 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism. The Testament of Jessie Lamb, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make The Testament of Jessie Lamb an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, and Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. “The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie’s, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.” —The Independent

Promised Lands

Promised Lands
Author: Jane Rogers
Publisher: Abacus
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405512628

Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book Award, 1996 The year is 1788, the place New South Wales. Marine Lieutenant William Dawes has arrived in the Antipodes to build an observatory, reform the convicts and understand the Aborigines. He is a good man who will be subject to many temptations. In England, now, a child is born. His mother knows he has extraordinary powers; his father knows he is a helpless cripple. Olla, defending and nurturing her miraculous son, emerges as one of the strangest and most compelling characters of contemporary fiction. Jane Rogers intertwines the powerful dramas of the first year of the convict-colony with these present-day lives to make a rich and gripping novel.