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The visitor calls it Alexandria. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet on the far side of the climate apocalypse, \u003ci\u003eAlexandria\u003c\/i\u003e completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth’s prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201753546930,"sku":"9780571322121","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571322121_7d02d9d5-5111-4a82-bfe1-9391d4389896.jpg?v=1786014843"},{"product_id":"9780241788400","title":"Against the Machine","description":"*New York Times bestseller*How a force that’s hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth presents a wholly original—and terrifying—account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. With insight into the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism, Kingsnorth reveals how the Machine, in the name of progress, has choked Western civilization, is destroying the Earth itself, and is reshaping us in its image. From the First Industrial Revolution to the rise of artificial intelligence, he shows how the hollowing out of humanity has been a long game—and how your very soul is at stake.   It takes effort to remain truly human in the age of the Machine. Here Kingsnorth reminds us what humanity requires: a healthy suspicion of entrenched power; connection to land, nature and heritage; and a deep attention to matters of the spirit. Prophetic and poetic, Against the Machine is a spiritual manual for dissidents in the technological age.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682647941493,"sku":"9781837310975","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55897272353141,"sku":"9780241788400","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837310975_a3b3ca18-6664-43c9-889f-148dfe9137c9.jpg?v=1792511568"},{"product_id":"9780571329694","title":"Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Kingsnorth was once an activist, an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on 'sustainability' rather than the defence of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Recovering Environmentalist\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls 'dark ecology,' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvocative and urgent, iconoclastic and fearless, this ultimately hopeful book poses hard questions about how we have lived and should live.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292677714293,"sku":"9780571329694","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571329694_9eb06c28-f30c-4763-a3b6-7dc413aae588.jpg?v=1786014990"},{"product_id":"beast","title":"Beast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat kind of man am I? 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The 'anti-capitalist' street protests we see in the media are only the tip of its iceberg. It aims to shake the foundations of the global economy, and change the course of history. But what exactly is it? Who is involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it? To find out, Paul Kingsnorth travelled across four continents to visit some of the epicentres of the movement. In the process, he was tear-gassed on the streets of Genoa, painted anti-WTO puppets in Johannesburg, met a tribal guerrilla with supernatural powers, took a hot bath in Arizona with a pie-throwing anarchist and infiltrated the world's biggest gold mine in New Guinea. Along the way, he found a new political movement and a new political idea. Not socialism, not capitalism, not any 'ism' at all, it is united in what it opposes, and deliberately diverse in what it wants instead -- a politics of 'one no, many yeses'. This movement may yet change the world. 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Told in a 'shadow tongue' - a form of Old English understandable to a modern reader - the novel is an astonishing and gripping depiction of faith, homeland and identity at the end of the world.   'Strange and extraordinary . . . it lingers in the imagination' The Times","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483320590709,"sku":"9781399836807","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399836807.jpg?v=1786178455"},{"product_id":"real-england","title":"Real England","description":"We see the signs around us every day: the chain cafés and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; and the headlines about yet another traditional industry going to the wall. 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