{"product_id":"9781847929518","title":"The New Dark Ages : The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society by Marriott, James","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Marriott, James\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eLiteracy\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 September 2026 by Vintage Publishing (The Bodley Head Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e205 x 138 x 23 | 276g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Without question the most important book of the year' MARINA HYDE'Superb' TOM HOLLANDReading built the modern world. It helped create democracy, science and reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, books are dying, and people everywhere are losing the ability to read deeply or think rationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through history is breaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe screen has replaced the page. Our free time has been colonised by addictive, infantilising slop. A culture of distraction is replacing a culture of reasoned debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs reading declines, thought becomes shallower and culture becomes simpler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic life is becoming more emotional, more tribal, more irrational.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are entering a post-literate society. And the world we knew is already beginning to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix hundred years after the invention of the printed book, it has never been more threatened or more irreplaceable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e˜Anyone who wants to understand the world today needs to read this book' NAOMI ALDERMAN˜One of the most important cultural crises of all. Essential reading' ANDREW MARR˜Put down your phone and read this' HELEN LEWIS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59113449718141,"sku":"9781847929518","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9781847929518.jpg?v=1794673396","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/es\/products\/9781847929518","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}