WINTERSON JEANETTE

(P/B) THE WORLD AND OTHER PLACES
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) GUT SYMMETRIES
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 beauty born with a diamond at the base of her spine. As this love triangle turns into a menage-a-trois, Alice, Stella and Jove struggle against the currents immer...
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(P/B) WEIGHT
Condemned to shoulder the world "for ever" 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, and it seems they can strike a bargain that might release him ... Jeanette Winterson asks difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in her dazzling retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles. Visionary and inventive, believable and intimate, Weight turns the familiar on its head to show us ourselves in a new light....
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(P/B) ART OBJECTS
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 intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE GAP OF TIME
Shakespeare's story of loss and redemption, retold by Jeanette Winterson '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 the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his? New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there's ...
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(P/B) THE POWERBOOK
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 called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price. Ali discovers that she too will have to pay it.Death can take the body but not the heart Set in London, Paris, Capr...
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(P/B) TANGLEWRECK
The world is in trouble! Nobody knows what to do when the Time Tornadoes start. Some days are long, some are short. Time stops then jerks forward. People are getting caught in Time Traps - locked in the past, then pushed into the future. Far from the city, in the strange old house Tanglewreck, Silver lives with her bony, bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and hears strange stories about the Timekeeper - an alchemist's watch that could steady Time again, if anyone could find it. When the sinister Abel Darkwater arrives at Tanglewreck in search...
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"Ο ελεύθερος άνθρωπος δεν σκέφτεται ποτέ τη φυγή". Στην αρχαιοελληνική μυθολογία ο Άτλας, από την παλιά γενιά θεών, τους Τιτάνες, επαναστατεί ενάντια στους νέους θεούς, τους Ολυμπίους, κι επισύρει τη θεϊκή οργή: οι Ολύμπιοι αναγκάζουν τον Άτλαντα, φύλακα του Κήπου των Εσπερίδων με τα χρυσά μήλα, να κουβαλάει για πάντα στους ώμους του το βάρος της γης και τ' ουρανού. Όταν ο Ηρακλής προσπαθεί, σ' έναν από τους δώδεκα περίφημους άθλους του, να κλέψει αυτά τα μήλα, βρίσκει τον Άτλαντα και προσφέρεται να σηκώσει προσωρινά εκείνος στους ώμους τ...
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(H/B) WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
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 First Novel award, become an international bestseller and inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. "Oranges" was semi-autobiographical. Mrs Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over that n...
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(H/B) THE LION, THE UNICORN AND ME
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 reborn. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) BOATING FOR BEGINNERS

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