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The dazzling and genre-bending new collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestseller Jeanette Winterson‘Spine-chillingly good’ iNEWS‘Winterson the artist at her most potent’ GUARDIANOur lives are now digital, exposed and always-on. We have changed,…
Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic. ‘I love her.’‘Then you do not love the Lord.’‘Yes, I love both of them.’‘You cannot.’'I do.''This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one…
The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette WintersonA 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…
Tells 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,…
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 includes selections from Jeanette Winterson's books about that impossible, essential force,…
Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and…
Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time. As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve…
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 of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story…
'Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts' Ali Smith, Scotsman 'It's night. Finally, you can be the hero of your own life.But, there is a price to pay - the risk that you might leave the story
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 letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell…
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement…
Specially commissioned short story collection with stellar contributors, all based on the stories behind favourite operas.
Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. 'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees
'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…
Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radical…
Új-Bohémia, Egyesült Államok. Vihar. Egy fekete férfi fehér leánycsecsemőt talál egy kórház babamentő inkubátorában. Magához veszi, maga sem tudja, miért, hazaviszi és felneveli. London, Anglia. Leo Kaiser remekül érti a pénzcsinálás módozatait, de nem…
Henri szenvedélyesen szereti Napóleont, Napóleon pedig szenvedélyesen szereti a csirkét. És Henri, a hűséges szakács Moszkváig követi a császárt, úgy hogy közben egyetlen embert sem öl meg. Mindeközben Velencében, az álarcok és lehetőségek városában,…
Winterson prózája árad, mint a zene… Megható, ugyanakkor okosan felépített írás, amelyet az utolsó mondatig lankadatlan figyelemmel olvasunk.” The Globe and Mail „Befejeztem az első két osztályt, de miután leégettem a játék konyhát, a legcsúfosabb kegyvesztettség…
Az egész világot időtornádók sújtják. A legelső a londoni Tower hídon csapott le, és egy egész iskolabuszt tüntetett el. A tornádók megzavarják az idő folyását, nyomukban feltűnik a régóta kihalt mamutfaj egy példánya, az égből pedig több évszázados…
A Teher jóval többről szól, mint Atlasz büntetéséről és átmeneti megkönnyebbüléséről, mikor Héraklész leváltja, s vállára veszi a világ terhét. Fel akartam tárni a magányt, az elszigeteltséget, a felelősségérzetet, a megterheltséget és a szabadságot,…