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The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 21st-century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. Set in London, Paris, Capri and cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, it works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
19.99 AUD
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
The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson
19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.
Weight by Jeanette Winterson
19.99 AUD
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
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Hercules by Jeanette Winterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Myth Series
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 my ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
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
22.99 AUD
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