This exciting new series provides readers with an introduction to some of the best works in contemporary literature. Each is a guide to the works of the subject author, his or her themes, genre and narrative technique.

Each guide features an exclusive interview with the author giving valuable insights into their writing. The guide also offers an introduction to their themes and methods as well as questions for essays and discussion, contextual materials, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, a picture essay, extracts from reviews, a biography, bibliography, reading list of literary criticism and a glossary of literary terms.

Included are detailed reading plans for The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin and Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories.