Book details
- Author: Naomi Alderman
- Release date: September 17, 2026
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781405981422
- Language: English
- Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction
About The Strangers
A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long, trunk-like nose. Suddenly these “mimmoths” are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they’ve come from.
As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief – a place with its own logic and rhythms – the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India. They seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes.
Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. Or is she just succumbing to ‘mimmoth psychosis’? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably?
From the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Power, The Strangers is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It’s like nothing you’ll have read before.
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When is The Strangers by Naomi Alderman coming out?
The Strangers by Naomi Alderman is scheduled to be released on September 17, 2026.
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The release date for The Strangers is September 17, 2026.
Who is the publisher of The Strangers?
The Strangers is published by Penguin.
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The Strangers is categorised as Fantasy, Science Fiction.
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Release details last updated May 27, 2026.