Toni Morrison

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' - AS Byatt It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by...

A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white...

A captivating novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter – New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter - New York Times As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood....

A stunning, relevant short story (the only one Toni Morrison wrote) about race and the relationships that shape our lives, with a new substantial introduction from Zadie Smith. 'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' – Bernadine Evaristo Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in...

A new edition for a new world of one of literary legend Toni Morrison s first picture books with her son, Slade Morrison. With an afterword by the inimitable Jewell Parker Rhodes."This is a book about mean people. Some mean people are big. Some little people are mean." In Toni Morrison's second illustrated book collaboration with her son Slade, she...

The unforgettable novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son. Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, she charts all the nuances of obligation and...

The first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of becoming someone—like her white...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home. As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a friend bent on racial revenge. Now...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life' - Marlon James Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life, he too will be trying to fly. In...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, is one of the finest novelists of our times. Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, and the counter-culture of the...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, is one of the finest novelists of our times. Joe Trace, in his fifties, is a door-to-door salesman and erstwhile devoted husband who shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse....

Vintage Quarterbound Classics - Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Jazz blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past. Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed, and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers. - Guardian Joe Trace, in his fifties, a door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products...

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon is a masterfully crafted tale that follows the journey of Macon "Milkman" Dead III. From his unusual birth, precipitated by a local eccentric's desperate attempt at flight, Milkman is born into a world rife with complexity and contradiction. Raised in Michigan by a well-off black family who hold the white world in high esteem, Milkman...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson. “So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder...

This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work. The Guardian Ripped from the world by her husband's paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African maid who raised her: together, they explore the contours of death, race, war, love and motherhood, in a moving elegy. Audacious with ambition, Desdemona is Toni Morrison's intimate reimagining...

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton...

VINTAGE DECO - Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it? Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the...

The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing...

Experience a brief encounter with Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in this masterful novella about race, ambiguity, and the unexpected connections that shape our lives. A stunning, timeless story about race, friendship, what keeps us apart and what drives us apart, from the one and only Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith. Twyla and Roberta met in a...

This is the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man, the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is a profound narrative that delves into the themes of identity and freedom, making it a significant work...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam,...

A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. "She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah Winfrey A vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writers. Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches,...

Love is a haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This audacious vision from a master storyteller on the nature of love - its appetite, its...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. With a new introduction by Candice Carty-Williams. Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. With a new introduction by Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie. Pecola Breedlove longs for blond...

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. With a new introduction by Bernardine Evaristo. Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home—the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the...