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Like A.S. Byatts Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession , these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia , an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects h
A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing With an introduction by David Mitchell Byatt takes her readers to a place that is rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgett
**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING** A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - '
Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them both. Years later Simon re-enters their lives via a televi
As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.
A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic. Possession is eloquent about the intense pleasures of reading. And, with sumptuous artistry, it provides a feast of them Sunday Times A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Fol
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friend
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and p
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth IIs arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local
A stunning collection of fairy tales for grown-ups f rom the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights ( The New York Times Book Review ). Includes the story &q
This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos; Willi
National Bestseller Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars
When mild-mannered and unremarkable academic Roland Mitchell stumbles upon a letter written by Victorian poet Randolph Ash to a mysterious woman with whom he seems to be infatuated, he is determined to uncover the truth. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, P
In this stunning literary mystery, two scholars uncover a hidden love affair that refuses to stay buried. Roland Michell is a young academic drifting through obscurity when he discovers a letter in the archive of the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash. The