{"product_id":"9781847929518","title":"The New Dark Ages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Without question the most important book of the year'  \u003c\/b\u003eMARINA HYDE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Superb' \u003c\/b\u003eTOM HOLLAND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading built the modern world. It helped create democracy, science and reason.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow, books are dying, and people everywhere are losing the ability to read deeply or think rationally.\u003c\/b\u003e\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\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix hundred years after the invention of the printed book, it has never been more threatened or more irreplaceable.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Anyone who wants to understand the world today needs to read this book' NAOMI ALDERMAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most important cultural crises of all. Essential reading'\u003c\/b\u003e ANDREW MARR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Put down your phone and read this'\u003c\/b\u003e HELEN LEWIS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marriott, James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58587447066998,"sku":"9781847929518","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1208\/4146\/files\/9781847929518.jpg?v=1788262981","url":"https:\/\/chepstowbooks.co.uk\/products\/9781847929518","provider":"Chepstow Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}