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  • Published: 26 March 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529920567
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

Chain-Gang All-Stars

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26 Mar 2024
EBook
2 May 2023
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2 May 2023
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Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND.

'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times

'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King

‘Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful’ The Times

Enter a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

Fan-favourite female stars Loretta Thurwar and Hamara ‘Hurricane Staxxx’ Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. But as protestors clash with the baying crowds and the programme’s corporate owners stack the odds against her – will the price be simply too high?

‘So compelling – right up to the final, fatal blow’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Vividly imaginative and startling’ Elle

‘The new maestro of dystopian lit’ Wired
  • Published: 26 March 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529920567
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. He is a National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' honoree, a winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Dylan Thomas Prize, among many other accolades. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.

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