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THE TIMES AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR 'The finest book ever written on
nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of
nature writing, beautifully narrated by Oscar-winning actor Tilda
Swinton, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm
mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be
breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others.
Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers,
creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd
spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the
Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on
the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship
with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World
War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more
than thirty years before it was finally published.
Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel - ingenious, original, a
modern classic.
Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My
father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle.
This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted
by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the
scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary.
But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost
as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called
that passion Unnatural?
Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of
autofiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit goes beyond facts into the
deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a
portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.
A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it
can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all
alternative forms. The Dead will join us. The genre-bending and
masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson
'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'The best living
writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital,
exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever
they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know
everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We
have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and
innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps
and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our
memories, always seeking new ways to connect. To live amongst us.
To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are
not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've
lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some
may not be.
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Night Side of the River
Jeanette Winterson
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A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most
gifted writers working today" (New York Times), The Night Side of
the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky.
In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette
Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts,
interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside
hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the
dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a
nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost
tour gone awry, a West Village séance that threatens the bounds
between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where
a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband.
Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines
grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt
the boundary between life and death.
A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it
can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all
alternative forms. The Dead will join us. The genre-bending and
masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson
'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'The best living
writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital,
exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever
they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know
everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We
have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and
innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps
and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our
memories, always seeking new ways to connect. To live amongst us.
To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are
not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've
lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some
may not be.
'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and
father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to
wrestle; it didn't matter what' This is the story of Jeanette,
adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous
and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but
then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette
decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young
woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of
religious excess and human obsession. 'Witty... extraordinary and
exhilarating' The Times 'She is a master of her material, a writer
in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair 'Many consider her to be
the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are
fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard 'A novel that deserves
revisiting' Observer 'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella
Frostrup
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Hansel and Greta (Hardcover)
Jeanette Winterson; Illustrated by Laura Barrett
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The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story
behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. 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 child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a
cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a
story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is
full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the
pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a
mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous,
honest and true. 'Unforgettable... It's the best book I have ever
read about the cost of growing up' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain'
Guardian Introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette
Winterson In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd
describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.
There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful
at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose
explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden
aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in
search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led
her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of
mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world
around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of
The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before
it was finally published.
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain'
Guardian Introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette
Winterson In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd
describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.
There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful
at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose
explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden
aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in
search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led
her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of
mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world
around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of
The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before
it was finally published.
A New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2017 "Nowhere is
[Winterson's] faith in the transporting power of storytelling more
on display than in her new book, Christmas Days . . . dark,
otherworldly and (trademark Winterson) wickedly funny . . . [a]
holiday treasure . . . to be pulled out on a December night,
fireside, and read aloud." --New York Times Book Review "If you
crave the mystery, the family rituals, and the special victuals of
Christmastime, you'll savor . . . bold, revelatory feminist writer
Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days." --Elle Jeanette Winterson
brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and
bold Christmas stories, linked by personal memories and twelve
delicious recipes for the Twelve Days of Christmas. From jovial
spirits to a donkey with a golden nose, a haunted house to a
SnowMama, Winterson's innovative stories encompass the childlike
and spooky wonder of Christmas. Enjoy the season of peace and
goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our
most fearless and accomplished writers. "Winterson has presented us
with unexpected holiday cheer . . . perfect for stuffing the
stockings of your eccentric relatives . . . The magical tales are
all exuberant." --Washington Post "Funny, spooky stories for the
Christmas season." --Los Angeles Times "A feast of stories . . .
Winterson has wrapped up a holiday present between two covers."
--NPR
Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.--Vogue
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a
dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric .
. . Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents was often
appalling, but it made her the writer she is.--The New York Times
Winterson is] one of the most daring and inventive writers of our
time--searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between
forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual
expansion of herself and of us. . . . In Why Be Happy, Winterson's]
emotional life is laid bare . . . in] a bravely frank narrative of
truly coming undone. For someone in love with disguises,
Winterson's openness is all the more moving; there's nothing left
to hide, and nothing left to hide behind.--Elle
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have earned her
widespread acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in world
literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the
past few decades, including her internationally best-selling first
novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl
adopted by Pentecostal parents, that is now often required reading
in contemporary fiction classes.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's
work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl
locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a
religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false
teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about
growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond
recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the
story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had
written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life,
sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of
her biological mother. It is also a book about other people's
literature, one that shows how fiction and poetry can form a string
of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are
sinking.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could
Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging--for love,
identity, home, and a mother.
Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy,
freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an
unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share
the burden . . . Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of
Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal questions about the
nature of choice and coercion. Visionary and inventive, Weight
turns the familiar on its head to show us ourselves in a new light.
The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest
writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and
memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong,
Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino,
Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette
Winterson.
Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright,
young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the
world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed
lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become
Jove's mistress, an affair of the heart which is only complicated
further when Alice meets Jove's, wife, Stella; a tempestuous beauty
born with a diamond at the base of her spine. As this love triangle
turns into a menage-a-trois, Alice, Stella and Jove struggle
against the currents immersing them, while their romance pulls into
its wake the stories of other generations, philosophies, quantum
physics and time travel. A celebration of the human heart in all
its frailty, confusion and excess, Gut Symmetries is a lyrical
evocation of parallel lives, loves and universes, from one of
Britain's best loved authors.
The perfect winter treat: a beautifully illustrated book of
Christmas stories and recipes from the Booker prize longlisted
author of Frankissstein 'Packed with charm and beautifully
illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let
you escape the less salubrious aspects of Christmas for a literary
wonderland' Stylist Everybody loves a Christmas story. The
tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition of
celebration, sharing and giving. And what better way to do that
than with a story? Read these stories by the fire, in the snow,
travelling home for the holidays. Give them to friends, wrap them
up for someone you love, read them aloud, read them alone, read
them together. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and
a little bit of magic. There are ghosts here and jovial spirits.
Chances at love and tricks with time. There is frost and icicles,
mistletoe and sledges. There's a cat and a dog and a solid silver
frog. There's a Christmas cracker with a surprising gift inside.
There's a haunted house and a SnowMama. There are Yuletides and
holly wreaths. Three Kings. And a merry little Christmas time. And
for the icing on the Christmas cake, there are twelve festive
recipes from Yuletides past and present. Red cabbage, gravlax,
turkey biryani, sherry trifle, Mrs Winterson's mince pies and more.
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The Passion (Paperback)
Jeanette Winterson
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Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most
important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps
her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her
special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the
Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two
remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows
Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the
red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose
husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound of
carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular
destiny. In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends
reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic
tale with stunning effects.
From internationally bestselling icon Jeanette Winterson comes her
most highly anticipated new book since Why Be Happy When You Could
be Normal?, about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire
Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and
commercial success as "one of the most daring and inventive writers
of our time" (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious
love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration
of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love. Lake
Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a
story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit
Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love
with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate
around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast
underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced
and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching
a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the
Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens
of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead...
but waiting to return to life. What will happen when homo sapiens
is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely
intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we
are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and
clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak.
Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its
forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing.
Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential
force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we
call Love. Selected from the books of Jeanette Winterson VINTAGE
MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short
books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make
us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Eating by Nigella Lawson
Jealousy by Marcel Proust Babies by Anne Enright Desire by Haruki
Murakami
'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists,
visionaries and code-breakers' Observer How is artificial
intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new
chapter, this is the eye-opening new book from Sunday Times
bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. Drawing on her years of
thinking and reading about AI, Jeanette Winterson looks to history,
religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer
science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we
live and love that are happening now. With wit, compassion and
curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points -
from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections
between humans and non-human helpers to whether it's time to leave
planet Earth. 'Very funny... A kind of comparative mythology, where
the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens
of far older stories' Spectator 'Refreshingly optimistic' Guardian
A 'Books of 2021' Pick in the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily
Telegraph and Evening Standard
Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative
fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers
and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper
have distilled the incredible variety of Acker's body of work into
a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines
of late-twentieth-century America. Acker was a literary pirate
whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture,
the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw
material of her own life. Her vision questions everything we take
for granted -- the authority of parents, government, and the law;
sexuality and the policing of desire -- and puts in its place a
universe of polymorphous perversity and shameless, playful
freakery. Spanning Acker's '70s punk interventions through more
than a dozen major novels, Essential Acker is an indispensable
overview of the work of this distinctive American writer and a
reminder of her challenge to and influence on writers of the
future. Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory
wit make her a writer like no other I know. -- Tom LeClair, The New
York Times Book Review
'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I
didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning' This is
the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class
evangelists in the North of England to be one of God's elect.
Passionate, headstrong and shielded by her mother's grand
disapproval of a sinful world, she seems destined for life as a
missionary. And then she meets Melanie. At sixteen, Jeanette faces
a world of uncertainty as she breaks from the church and her
community for the young woman she loves. Oranges Are Not the Only
Fruit is a warm, witty and daring novel that gives voice to
irrepressible desire. Meet ten of literature's most iconic
heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from
around the world.
Eight authors were given after hours freedom at their chosen
English heritage site. Immersed in the history, atmosphere and
rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into
a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Sarah Perry's intense
tale of possession at the Jacobean country house Audley End is a
work of psychological terror, while Andrew Michael Hurley's story
brings an unforgettably shocking slant to the history of Carlisle
Castle. Within the walls of these historic buildings each author
has found inspiration to deliver a new interpretation of the
classic ghost story. Relish the imagined terrors at these
exhilarating locations: Kate Clanchy, Housesteads Roman Fort |
Stuart Evers, Dover Castle | Mark Haddon, York Cold War Bunker |
Andrew Michael Hurley, Carlisle Castle | Sarah Perry, Audley End |
Max Porter Eltham Palace | Kamila Shamsie, Kenilworth Castle |
Jeanette Winterson, Pendennis Castle
"Mixing historical detail and dark horror, Winterson] brilliantly
brews a spellbinding take on the 1612 English witch
trials."--"People"
An instant bestseller in the UK, "The Daylight Gate" is Jeanette
Winterson's singular vision of a dark period of complicated
morality, sex, and tragic plays for power in a time when politics
and religion were closely intertwined. On Good Friday, 1612, deep
in the woods of Pendle Hill, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted
by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been
imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who
remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter.
Shrouded in mystery and gifted with eternally youthful beauty,
Alice is established in Lancashire society and insulated by her
fortune. As those accused of witchcraft retreat into darkness,
Alice stands alone as a realm-crosser, a conjurer of powers that
will either destroy her or set her free.
"Winterson's haunting imagery and narrative immediacy captivate. An
engrossing story that's sure to leave you shivering."--"Elle"
"This book is addictive, a page-turner...Winterson lays on the
horror and the supernatural with gleeful abandon."--"LA Review of
Books"
"A daring historical novel...a portal in prose....Any reader who
crosses over into this novel will remember vividly where he or she
has traveled."--NPR.com
"Delightfully gruesome."--"New York Times"
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