They: Faber Editions

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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.

A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying! Margaret Atwood
A masterpiece of creeping dread. Emily St. John Mandel

This is Britain: but not as we know it.
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.
THEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, curing these subversives of individual identity.
Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...

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.

Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it! Rumaan Alam
Crystalline ... 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. Completely got under my skin. Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads. Eimear McBride
A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching. Claire-Louise Bennett
A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable. Andrew Hunter Murray
Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future. Salena Godden

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Kay Dick was a novelist, writer and editor. Born in London in 1915, she worked at Foyles bookshop before becoming the first female director of an English publishing house aged 26, editing authors such as George Orwell. She later reviewed for the New Statesman, Times, Spectator and Punch, as well as editing The Windmill under a pseudonym. Dick wrote five novels including They (1977), which won the South-East Arts Literature Prize but swiftly went out of print until it was recently rediscovered. She also wrote three biographies, edited anthologies and campaigned for Public Lending Right. For twenty-two years Dick lived with her long-term partner, the novelist Kathleen Farrell, in Hampstead. She later moved to Brighton, where she continued to champion fellow writers until her death in 2001.

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