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Jeanette Winterson
One hundred years after women were first granted the vote, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson celebrates how far we have come on the road to equality, and calls on women and…
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For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales, along with twelve delicious…
A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. This book focuses on love in all its forms. It…
Jeanette Winterson’s voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling'Cosmopolitan'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life… A bold, bizarre and timely book'Independent'Simple prose…
The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will…
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A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates physical and psychological worlds that are…
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the…
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A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You…
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A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief…
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette’s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted…
inventive and brilliant’ Guardian'As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author’s formidable appetite for life’ Sunday Times'A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance…brilliantly physical (and…
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This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God’s elect.With a new introduction by the author'Witty, bizarre, extraordinary and exhilarating'The Times'She is…
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, and Villanelle, the daughter of aVenetian boatmen…
A comprehensive introduction to Jeanette Winterson’s writing. This work provides students with a critical guide to Winterson’s most commonly studied texts, covering major themes and developments, and issues of style…
A collection of pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, and painting, arguing the importance of art in our lives. The essays also discuss intimately the author’s relationship to her own work…
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge…
A tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of mystery through the art of storytelling.
