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...
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This new world weighs a yatto-gram... 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 of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in...
Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved...
This title, the winner of the 1985 Whitbread Award for a First Novel, chronicles the struggles of a young girl against a domineering mother and the strictures of religion. The novel takes a look at religious excess and human...
A wonderfully atmospheric, intricating woven, magical modern-day tale of the Pendle Witches. The animosity and anger betwen the accused and the accusers -- which tore the community apart in the seventeenth century -- is still going strong today.
The...
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the...
Джазовый пианист и владелец небольшого бара Шеп находит подброшенную к больнице девочку-младенца – вместе с чемоданом денег. Шеп...
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Дженет Уинтерсон родилась в 1959 году в графстве Ланкашир, на северо-западе Англии. Известность она приобрела в 1985 году романом «Фрукты —...
Когда Посейдон возжелал Землю, от их союза родился легендарный титан – Атлас. Он был неистов, как отец, и задумчив, как мать. Его брат...
Пьеса для трех голосов и сводни. Искусство и...