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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,…
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…
The perfect festive treat: a beautifully illustrated book of Christmas stories and recipes from the Booker prize long-listed author.'Packed with charm and beautifully illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let you escape the…
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…
Projekt Shakespeare 400, v rámci ktorého vyjde okrem iného v roku 2017 román Jo Nesba na motívy Shakespearovho Macbetha, štartuje aj na Slovensku. Chorobná žiarlivosť, príznačná pre kráľa Leonta z hry Zimná rozprávka (1611), zasadenej okrem iného aj…
Finalista Bookerovej ceny 2019 je vtipný, vášnivý, smelý a prenikavý román a ľúbostný príbeh o živote. Frankissstein je nekonvenčným príbehom lásky, v ktorom sa prepletajú dramatické životné osudy na pozadí tém ako transhumanizmus, umelá inteligencia…
A radical love story for right now, from 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) ***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.’ Inspired by Mary Shelley’s gothic classic Frankenstein,…
V pořadí třetí román přední současné britské prozaičky je přímo naditý podivuhodnými věcmi a ději. Splétá síť pronikavých a barvitých příběhů, které střídavě vypráví výstřední rabelaisovská obryně – Psí žena neboli Psářka – a její éterický nevlastní…
'I saw the strangest sight tonight.' New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up - light as a star - and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows…
První kniha v řadě SHAKESPEARE 400, kde vyjdou autoři jako Jo Nesbo, Margaret Atwoodová nebo Gillian Flynnová. Pozdní hra Williama Shakespeara Zimní pohádka je proslulá mimo jiné umístěním Čech na břeh moře. Líčí chorobnou žárlivost sicilského vladaře…
Henri vášnivo zbožňoval Napoleona a Napoleon vášnivo zbožňoval kurence. Počas cesty z Boulogne do Moskvy Henri zabil množstvo hydiny, ale ani jedného človeka. Medzitým v tom čase sa v Benátkach, meste nádejí a masiek, narodila Villanelle, po otcovi gondolierovi…