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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 i...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? comes an enchanting collection of stories for the holiday season.For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the Twelve Days of Christmas. These tales give the reader a portal into the spirit of the ...

Magie is een hoofdingrediënt in het speelse, vindingrijke oeuvre van Jeanette Winterson, en nu laat ze haar fantasie de vrije loop in twaalf betoverende (kerst)verhalen voor de donkere, koude avonden - aangevuld met twaalf feestelijke recepten voor een vleugje Engelse kerstsfeer.In een afgelegen victoriaans huis aan zee, tijdens de langste nacht van het jaar, hoort de eenzame gast 's nachts mysterieuze geluiden op zolder.Een vrouw alleen wordt...

Silver, an orphaned girl, is taken in by the mysterious old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast, who tells her stories about a 19th-century clergyman who lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love.

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

Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves.

One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.

In ancient Greek mythology Atlas, a member of the original race of gods called Titans, leads a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. For this he incurs divine wrath: the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. When the hero Heracles, as one of his famous twelve labours, is tasked with stealing these apples he ...

Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius.

An interplanetary love story, traveller's tale and hymn to the beauty of the world, this inventive novel from the author of "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit" tackles the theme of climate change in a thought provoking and timely way. 'Playful and impassioned... Her writing is funny and beautiful' "The Times

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Dragons, magic, golden cities and kidnapped children pitting their wits against an evil Magus make this a magical and unputdownable adventure story by the acclaimed author of Tanglewreck

Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson ("Sexing the Cherry, "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, "The Passion) presents a stunning novel that probes the boundaries of the Internet. Ali writes stories on email for anyone who wants them. She promises "freedom just for one night, " but she does not do so without a warning: the story might change you. Ask for an epic love story and ...

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, who has lost her heart to a married noblewoman and who wanders the Western world to retrieve it.