Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead (SIGNED PRE-ORDER) #foliosociety

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead (SIGNED PRE-ORDER) #foliosocietyDATE OF RELEASE: 21 JUL 2026 SIGNED EDITION From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and two time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan era predatory capitalism. Up

The act of depriving someone of their liberty is one of humankind’s most enduring responses to ‘crime’ through history

The Cyberiad is oddly reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels

where you will leapfrog from topic to topic in surprising and hilarious ways

and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote

She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs

birds are hugely symbolic

top experiences

where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'

Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged

Aren't they all evil

A deeply moving novel about grief

Taking readers on an unforgettable twenty-four-hour adventure – beginning the night before the games and ending the evening after – Those Who Are About To Die gives a blow-by-blow account of what life was really like in the brutally unforgiving arena of the ancient world