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Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
The young orphan Silver is taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. A magical, lyrical tale from one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, ...Show more
Midsummer Nights: Tales From the Opera (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
In celebration of the Glyndebourne Festival, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. Includes an introduction by Jeanette Winterson, Alexander McCall Smith on Cosi Fan Tutte, Ali Smith on Fidelio ...Show more
Night Side of the River (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
A modern and masterful collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'A master of her material' VANITY FAIR 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
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 sixtee ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
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 l ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Winterson Jeanette (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put the book down. Orlando has it all: lif ...Show more
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Winterson, Jeanette Ser.
"The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel." --The New York TimesWinner of the E. M. Forster AwardIn a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, i ...Show more
TANGLEWRECK (Hardcover) by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Young Adult
Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a hou ...Show more
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Children's Fiction
An action-packed, exciting novel about time travel, prophecies, hypnosis, a black hole, an evil rabbit - and a girl, a boy and a house who prove that no matter how insurmountable the problem may appear, there is always something that can be done to make a difference.A little way in the future, time is d ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches' Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder. It is set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined; when, following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, ev ...Show more
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare
'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 how to make money but he doesn't know how to manage ...Show more