BFH7 Lionel Shriver

In her latest novel, Mania, Lionel Shriver, best-selling author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, turns her piercing gaze on the policing of opinion and intellect, and imagines a world in which intellectual meritocracy is heresy. 

About Mania
In a reality not too distant from our own, a debate about censorship rages as the Mental Parity Movement takes hold.  When calling someone ‘stupid’ becomes illegal, even lifelong friends find themselves on opposing sides.

Never shy of getting stuck in, Shriver now sets her satirical sights on groupthink and the policing of thought. Financial Times, Book of 2024 

Lionel Shriver is the author of Orange Prize-winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Post-Birthday World, A Perfectly Good Family, Game Control, Double Fault, The Female of the Species, Checker and the Derailleurs, and Ordinary Decent Criminals. She is widely published as a journalist, writing features, columns, op-eds, and book reviews for the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Economist, Marie Claire, and many other publications.