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The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced h...

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'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what' This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's ele...

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Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle. This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and abl...

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I Tidsklyftan, Jeanette Wintersons omarbetning av En vintersaga, framträder Shakespeares eviga teman hämnd, svartsjuka och förlåtelse, mot bakgrund av finanskrisens London och amerikanska New Bohemia. Leo är övertygad om att hans gravida fru Mimi ...

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'Brave and ambitious' Independent In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves fellow passengers, the poet, the painter and the musician discover their fates drawn ...

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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 t...

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'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have brok...

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Kliv in genom dörren till Jeanette Wintersons magiska jul, där både lekfulla och mörka berättelser blandas med anekdoter och recept på den godaste julmaten. Låt dig förtrollas av de muntra andarna, tidsexperimenten, reflektioner kring kärleken, sp...

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A masterful and modern collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'The best living writer in this language' Evening Standard 'Always passionate and provocative' New Statesman 'A master of her material' Vani...

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020** **LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020** 'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.' Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein...

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'Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts' Ali Smith, Scotsman 'It's night. I'm sitting at my screen. There's an e-mail for me. I unwrap it. It says - Freedom, just for one night.' Ali, or A...

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'Utterly compulsive' Daily Telegraph 'A gripping gothic read' Sarah Hall, Guardian 'So seductive ... I was hooked' Independent The Forest of Pendle used to be a hunting ground, but some say that the hill is the hunter - alive in its black-and-gree...

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Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic. 'I love her.' 'Then you do not love the Lord.' 'Yes, I love both of them.' 'You cannot.' 'I do.'' This is the story of Jeanette, born to...

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'A shining delight of a novel' New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars' Financial Times A 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 mothe...

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Passion förenar dem alla i Wintersons nyutgivna klassiker.Henri tar värvning i Napoleons armé, mannen som ett helt Frankrike älskar, men inser efterhand i egenskap av armékock att generalens hjärta endast bultar snabbare för kyckling. I Venedig, h...

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'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The TimesIn a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broke...

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From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherl...

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I Tidsklyftan, Jeanette Wintersons omarbetning av En vintersaga, framträder Shakespeares eviga teman hämnd, svartsjuka och förlåtelse, mot bakgrund av finanskrisens London och amerikanska New Bohemia. Leo är övertygad om att hans gravida fru Mimi ...

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Jeanette Wintersons klassiska, numera kultförklarade och ständigt efterfrågade debutroman i nyöversättning. Liksom folk i allmänhet bodde jag länge hos min mor och far. Min far gillade att se på brottning. Min mor gillade att brottas. Det här är b...

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Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction.Gree...

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Den här är en bok om ett livslångt sökande efter lycka. Det är en bok full av historier. Det handlar om en flicka som blir utelåst från sitt hem och är tvungen att sitta på trappen hela natten, det handlar om att ha en tyrann i stället för en mor,...

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Det här är berättelsen om Jeanette, adopterad och uppfostrad som vore hon en av Guds utvalda i en strängt religiös, frikyrklig arbetarfamilj i norra England. Hon verkar vara förutbestämd att bli missionär, och redan vid unga år är hon en framgångs...

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Historisk realitet blandas med magi i denna mycket Jeanette Wintersonska berättelse från det tidiga sextonhundratalets England - ränksmidandets och häxprocessernas tid. Lancashire 1612. Kung James I sitter vid makten, och han har föresatt sig att ...

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'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' Observer How is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new chapter, this is the eye-opening new book from Sunday Times bes...

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'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elec...

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How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossib...

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