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The Ministry of Manners
- Narrator
- Jason Forbes
- Publisher
- Piccadilly Press
- Publish Date
- 7 May 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Alfie and Margot Hawthorne have grown up under the Ministry of Manners, where politeness isn't a choice - it's the law. And one wrong word can change your life. He knows how to stay out of trouble, but she has never been one for quiet obedience.
When the Ministry takes Margot, everything changes. Inside the Manners Retreat, she fights to stay herself in a place built to erase her. Meanwhile, Alfie falls in with the Unsilenced - those who still dare to speak. But the Ministry has plans of its own. And if they succeed, rebellion won't just be punished. It'll be impossible.
A BOLD NEW MIDDLE-GRADE ADVENTURE FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR DAVID SOLOMONS EXPLORING WHAT'S LOST IN KEEPING QUIET AND WHAT'S FOUND IN FIGHTING BACK.
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What an epic dystopian adventure. Written for Young Adults, it is a vision of a stark future in the tradition of 1984. There are nods to things that are reality today - I was particularly struck by the book censoring where the author has been very clever about the books mentioned.
I read when I could and listened when I couldn’t. Love that this is a possibility with and x bookSimon Pollard 2026-05-30
Details
- Author
- David Solomons, illustrated by Hazem Asif
- Narrator
- Jason Forbes
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Release Date
- 7 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781835873182
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Piccadilly Press
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Be quiet. Be polite. Or be silenced.Alfie and Margot Hawthorne have grown up under the Ministry of Manners, where politeness isn't a choice - it's the law. And one wrong word can change your life. He knows how to stay out of trouble, but she has never been one for quiet obedience.When the Ministry takes Margot, everything changes. Inside the Manners Retreat, she fights to stay herself in a place built to erase her. Meanwhile, Alfie falls in with the Unsilenced - those who still dare to speak. But the Ministry has plans of its own. And if they succeed, rebellion won't just be punished. It'll be impossible.A BOLD NEW MIDDLE-GRADE ADVENTURE FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR DAVID SOLOMONS EXPLORING WHAT'S LOST IN KEEPING QUIET AND WHAT'S FOUND IN FIGHTING BACK.
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