The Queen's Gambit

Now A Major Netflix Series Starring Anya Taylor-Joy From Academy-Award Nominee Scott Frank And Bafta Nominee Allan Scott

'Superb' Time Out
'Mesmerizing' Newsweek
'Gripping' Financial Times
'Sheer Entertainment. It Is A Book I Reread Every Few Years - For The Pure Pleasure And Skill Of It' Michael Ondaatje
'Don't Pick This Up If You Want A Night's Sleep' Scotsman

When She Is Sent To An Orphanage At The Age Of Eight, Beth Harmon Soon Discovers Two Ways To Escape Her Surroundings, Albeit Fleetingly: Playing Chess And Taking The Little Green Pills Given To Her And The Other Children To Keep Them Subdued. Before Long, It Becomes Apparent That Hers Is A Prodigious Talent, And As She Progresses To The Top Of The Us Chess Rankings She Is Able To Forge A New Life For Herself. But She Can Never Quite Overcome Her Urge To Self-Destruct. For Beth, There's More At Stake Than Merely Winning And Losing.

'few Novelists Have Written About Genius - And Addiction - As Acutely As Walter Tevis' The TElegraph