Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a deeply touching memoir by Jeanette Winterson, offering readers a raw, intimate glimpse into her life and the tumultuous journey that shaped her. This compelling narrative unravels the poignant and often painful experiences behind her critically acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In Why Be Happy When You...

I can change the story because I am the story - a celebration of the power of storytelling, a guide to starting your life as a reader, and a delightful recounting of the Arabian Nights, in the new book from Jeanette Winterson. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson is a poignant and innovative novel that delves deep into the complexities of identity, faith, and love. The story begins with Jeanette, a young girl adopted and raised by her fervently religious mother to be one of God's chosen few. Jeanette’s childhood is marked by strict religious teachings and the anticipation...

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world. 'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning.' This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England...

The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES. '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...

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;...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of 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 be one of God's...

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 of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will...

How is AI changing the way we live and love? This is the hugely entertaining, eye-opening new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 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...

The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestseller Jeanette Winterson. Our lives are now digital, exposed, and always-on. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect... To...

The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical, and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES. 'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' – Guardian Henri has a passion for Napoleon – but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory falls...

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 questions about the nature of choice and coercion. Visionary and inventive,...

“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.” Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel is a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, and a modern classic. “Like most people I lived for a...

A powerful retelling of the traditional Nativity Story. In this beautifully evocative retelling of the story of the very first Christmas, the humble donkey is chosen above all the 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...

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is revolutionised by the iconic Jeanette Winterson in her page-turning, heart-breaking story of a baby girl banished from home. 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 mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a...

"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her." -- O, the Oprah Magazine The 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of autofiction--a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl's quirky passage into adulthood With a new introduction and afterword by the author Jeanette Winterson's extraordinary career began at the age of twenty-five with the publication...

Eight Ghosts features eight authors who were granted exclusive access to their chosen English Heritage site, ranging from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in historical atmospheres and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their imaginations into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories. Following these tales by the contemporary writers, there is a section by...