 | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Winterson, Jeanette
This semi-autobiographical novel won Winterson the Whitbread award for best first fiction in 1985. Jeanette, the protagonist of the novel has "unnatural" desires that soon come to the attention of her adopted mam, a woman obsessed with the lord and religious excesses. Growing up in a working-class Pentacostal family Jeanette's coming-of-age is far from typical. Full of memorabl (more...) |
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 | Sexing the Cherry
Winterson, Jeanette
This is Jeanette Winterson at her best, poetic, original and imaginative. Set in 17th century London, Sexing the Cherry is an unforgettable tale about the adventures of Dog-Woman and her son Jordan. This is engaging fiction that makes ambitious use of magical and historical realism. This is a novel about love and sex; lies and truths; and 12 dancing princesses who lived happily (more...) |
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 | Passion
Winterson, Jeanette
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. With a de-frocked priest and a midget groom, Henri witnessed the scourge of Europe. In Venice, the city of chance and disguises, a great beauty was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father. In the casino, Villanel (more...) |
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 | Boating for Beginners
Winterson, Jeanette
In a comic style Winterson explores The Book of Genesis. Playing the jester to the hilt Winterson has concocted an over the top surrealist take on creation. This is a fun and playful read that will appeal to the ever expanding fan base of Ms Winterson. (more...) |
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 | Written on the Body
Winterson, Jeanette
This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea (more...) |
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 | Art and Lies
Winterson, Jeanette
'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies' Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, seperately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an (more...) |
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 | Art Objects
Winterson, Jeanette
These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. 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 intimate (more...) |
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 | Gut Symmetries
Winterson, Jeanette
Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice -a bright, young physicist -meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair of the heart which is only complicated further when Alice meets Jove's, wife, Stella; a tempestuous (more...) |
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 | World and Other Places
Winterson, Jeanette
It's 1979 and in Birkenhead smack and Maggie Thatcher are still less of an issue than Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For Paul Carty, 19, and his mystical, Joy Division-loving mate Elvis, life revolves around The Pack, a mob of violent Tranmere Rovers supporters. Carty and Elvis travel the Northern wastelands, always by train, causing mayhem in the 'woollybac (more...) |
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 | The.Powerbook
Winterson, Jeanette
Intense, erotic, incandescent in the power and beauty of its prose, The PowerBook is an astonishing achievement.
To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.
The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer (more...) |
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 | King of Capri
Winterson, Jeanette
This is a delightful children's book by Jeanette Winterson, famed author of lesbian classics, Sexing the Cherry and The Passion. The story is about a rich and greedy king who learns with the help of a tempest, a washer-woman and a cheeky cat called Wash, to share and think of others beside himself. The King of Capri is beautifully illustrated in rich and vivid colours. Appealin (more...) |
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 | Lighthousekeeping (Lighthouse Keeping)
Winterson, Jeanette
The masterful Winterson is back with another extraordinary and original novel. Lighthousekeeping is a story of mutability in which the motherless Silver learns through ancient tales, the value of love, loss, passion and longing. The stories we tell ourselves and others are the inspiration behind this lyrical work which features amongst other things talking birds, stolen (more...) |
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 | Weight
Winterson, Jeanette
The series that began in October with Karen Armstrong's compelling A Short History of Myth continues, with electrifying new works of fiction from two of the world s most loved writers.
In reference to her reworking of the tale of Atlas, Jeanette Winterson commented that: When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of At (more...) |
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 | Tanglewreck
Winterson, Jeanette
A little way in the future, time is distorting. Time Tornadoes are causing havoc. People are whirled out of their own time, never to return, and a Woolly Mammoth has been seen on the banks of the River Thames. But time is big business, and whoever gets control of time controls life as we know it!
In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs R (more...) |
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 | Stone Gods
Winterson, Jeanette
All the talk is of the new blue planet . . .
This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-of-focus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by (more...) |
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 | Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal
Winterson, Jeanette
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, her novel went on to win the Whitbread F (more...) |
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 | Daylight Gate
Winterson, Jeanette
A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell.
Is this a witches' Sabbat?
Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial. Why is the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter defending them? And why is she among the group of thirteen on Pendle Hill?
Elsewhere, a starved, abused child lurks. And a Jes (more...) |
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