{"product_id":"9781399618533","title":"The Mars House : A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Natasha Pulley\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 19 March 2024 by Orion Publishing Co (Gollancz) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 480 pages\u003cbr\u003e165 x 241 x 44mm | 736g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH'A spiritual heir to Terry Pratchett' ROBIN STEVENS 'Book of the year for me' LAUREN JAMESJanuary Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination. But he will live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAubrey Gale, energy trillionaire and hereditary senator, is running for election on a hardline platform to protect the native population from dangerous immigrants. The path to equality is simple, requiring all Earthstrongers who choose to come to Mars to undergo the disabling and sometimes fatal process of surgical naturalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is no life at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a disastrous media encounter plunges Aubrey and January's lives into chaos, the solution is a five-year made-for-reality-TV marriage that could secure January's future and ensure Aubrey's political success . . . but it soon becomes clear that thousands of lives hang in the balance, and nothing is as it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimely and utterly unputdownable, The Mars House is an exceptional genre-blending story about privilege, strength, life, and love across class divisions - perfect for fans of Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Natasha Pulley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153931940165,"sku":"9781399618533","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781399618533.jpg?v=1762273195","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781399618533","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}