Jeanette Winterson

The Myth of Atlas and HeraclesThe story of Atlas and HeraclesAtlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day Wintersons skill in turning the familiar...

StoriesOranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson's delectable first novel, announced the arrival of 'a fresh voice with a mind behind it,' as Muriel Spark has written. 'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides'--and her reputation and accomplishment have grown with each of her...

Nie tylko pomarańcze... to pierwsza książka Jeanette Winterson, opublikowana w 1985 roku i uhonorowana Nagrodą Whitbreada za najlepszy debiut powieściowy.Autorka mówi sama, że ta książka i jest, i nie jest jej autobiografią. Bohaterka powieści, adoptowane dziecko, wzrasta pod przemożnym wpływem matki, w...

Tytułowe słowa wypowiedziała do autorki przybrana matka, która wypełnia strony tej książki niczym wszechwładna bogini.To chyba najbardziej osobiste i poruszające dzieło Winterson, napisana bez cenzury autobiografia. Podróż w głąb szaleństwa i z powrotem, którą autorka odbyła w poszukiwaniu biologicznej matki; opowieść...

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 in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he...

But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it!In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key to the mysterious and...