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The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
"'A shining delight of a novel'New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars'Financial TimesA baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't ...Show more
The Lion, The Unicorn and Me by HARTMAN BOB & NAGY KRISZTINA KALLAI
Category: Philosophy
In this beautiful retelling of the story of the very first Christmas, the humble donkey is chosen above all other animals to carry Mary to Bethlehem. As his journey unfolds, he is touched by the magic and mystery of the Nativity...With sparkles of originality, humour and warmth, the Christmas story is r ...Show more
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow, Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she ...Show more
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Blue Ser.
Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she ...Show more
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels - an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the world 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 o ...Show more
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
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 q ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Biography
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Biography
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five, ...Show more
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Category: Fiction
Written on the body is 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 whole story. I didn't k ...Show more