{"product_id":"new-dark-ages","title":"James Marriott: The New Dark Ages [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Without question the most important book of the year'  \u003c\/b\u003eMARINA HYDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Superb' \u003c\/b\u003eTOM HOLLAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading built the modern world. It helped create democracy, science and reason.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow, books are dying, and people everywhere are losing the ability to read deeply or think rationally.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through history is breaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs reading declines, thought becomes shallower and culture becomes simpler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublic life is becoming more emotional, more tribal, more irrational.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are entering a post-literate society. And the world we knew is already beginning to disappear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix hundred years after the invention of the printed book, it has never been more threatened or more irreplaceable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Anyone who wants to understand the world today needs to read this book' \u003c\/b\u003eNAOMI ALDERMAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most important cultural crises of all. Essential reading'\u003c\/b\u003e ANDREW MARR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Put down your phone and read this'\u003c\/b\u003e HELEN LEWIS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marriott, James","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54387187941715,"sku":"9781847929518","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/marriott-james-james-marriott-the-new-dark-ages-2026-9781847929518-1250857755.jpg?v=1784845058","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/new-dark-ages","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}