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Klassiek, poëtisch meesterwerk over wandelen en leven in de bergen. De Schotse bergwandelaar, onderwijzeres en dichter Nan Shepherd bracht haar leven door op zoek naar de essentie van natuur in de Cairngorms - een adembenemend mooie, maar onheilspellend ruige bergketen in de oostelijke Schotse Hooglanden. Haar levenslange zoektocht leidde tot het schrijven van deze klassieke bespiegeling over de bergen en onze fantasierijke relatie met die woeste wereld. Shepherd schreef De levende berg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, maar liet het manuscript liggen, totdat het in 1977 werd gepubliceerd en direct werd erkend als een meesterwerk.

Openhartig, pijnlijk eerlijk en rauw: Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn? geeft een heel nieuw inzicht in de ontwikkeling van het schrijverschap van de belangrijkste vrouwelijke romancier van Engeland. Haar jeugd en de problematische relatie met haar adoptiemoeder zijn in het werk van Winterson altijd belangrijke thema’s geweest. Maar in Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn? geeft ze zichzelf voor het eerst helemaal bloot en beschrijft ze haar vroegste jeugd, de breuk met haar adoptieouders en de zoektocht naar haar echte moeder.

Een soldaat-kok in het Franse leger verliest zijn hart aan Napoleon en vervolgens aan een Venetiaanse gondeliersdochter.

Een jonge getrouwde vrouw wordt verliefd op een ander, maar als blijkt dat zij leukemie heeft staan beiden voor een moeilijk dilemma.

Magie is een hoofdingrediënt in het speelse, vindingrijke oeuvre van Jeanette Winterson, en nu laat ze haar fantasie de vrije loop in twaalf betoverende (kerst)verhalen voor de donkere, koude avonden - aangevuld met twaalf feestelijke recepten voor een vleugje Engelse kerstsfeer. In een afgelegen victoriaans huis aan zee, tijdens de langste nacht van het jaar, hoort de eenzame gast 's nachts mysterieuze geluiden op zolder. Een vrouw alleen wordt getroost door een filosofische fee die haar een wens laat doen. Een ezel geeft zijn bijzondere visie op het verhaal van de geboorte van Jezus. Of ze nou heidens of Bijbels of gothic of autobiografisch zijn, de twaalf verhalen in Kerstdagen zullen onze kinderlijke verbazing over en geloof in de kerst opnieuw aanwakkeren. Deze verhalen worden door Winterson aangevuld met haar eigen bijzondere kerstherinneringen en twaalf feestelijke, nostalgische kerstrecepten.

Verhalen over meisjes en vrouwen die enigszins buiten de maatschappij staan.

Een ex-priester en nu chirurg, een artieste die jarenlang door haar broer is misbruikt en Sappho, de Griekse dichteres uit de 7e eeuw v.Chr. vertellen in fragmenten hun verhaal, onderbroken door commentaren van een prostituée.

Een Engelse internet-auteur schrijft verhalen over o.a. haar liefde voor een getrouwde vrouw.

Jeanette, wees gevoelig, intelligent en opstandig, wordt aangenomen door een familie van evangelisten en somber geïndustrialiseerde noorden van Groot-Brittannië. Haar jeugd wordt een surrealistische mengeling van preken, catechismus, geratel van tamboerijn in de kerk orkest en laat de aanpassing aan de ontberingen van het onderwijssysteem. Echter, zoals Jeanette naderen de adolescentie, een carrière missionaris om te beginnen met de voorbereiding van ouders om hun aura verliezen, de jonge ontdekken hun seksualiteit op alle orthodoxe en familie stilte valt uit elkaar. Jeanette zal moeten kiezen tussen de waarheid en de waarheid van haar ziel Bijbel en moedige beslissing die het begin van een pad kronkelende tussen originele en ongewone monumenten van het lot te zijn

Frankissstein , is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love. Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.

De levens van en de driehoeksverhouding tussen een Engelse vrouwelijke natuurkundige en een Amerikaanse natuurkundige en zijn vrouw worden verbonden met theorieën en ideeën over ruimte, tijd en materie.

Een vrouw en jongen in het 17e-eeuwse Engeland blijken zich in bizarre 20e-eeuwse fantasieën te bevinden.

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 story is born.

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These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves.

The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.

In her eye-opening book, Jeanette Winterson explores how artificial intelligence is transforming our lives and relationships. Drawing from diverse fields like history and literature, she delves into intriguing topics such as brain backups and human-non-human connections, blending wit and compassion throughout. A refreshing take on technology's impact.

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes this magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthouse keeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.

In a near-future setting, time is becoming unstable due to Time Tornados, which disrupt lives by pulling people from their own eras. Amidst the chaos, a woolly mammoth is spotted by the River Thames.

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 happen when their story combines with the world's story.

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love. Selected from the books of Jeanette Winterson VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series- Eating by Nigella Lawson Jealousy by Marcel Proust Babies by Anne Enright Desire by Haruki Murakami

Set in the 17th century, "Sexing the Cherry" celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. This is the story of Jordan, an orphan found floating on the River Thames, and his keeper, The Dog Woman, a huge and monstrous creature with a powerful right hook and a wide vocabulary. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and, twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central protagonists. Clarissa's life is touched by tragedy as the events in her day run parallel to those of Septimus Warren Smith.

Thirteen stories offer fresh looks at the relationship between men and women by using dream imagery and surrealism

With wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny. Visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day, Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head and showing us a different truth is once more put to dazzling effect.

'I saw the strangest sight tonight.' New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up - light as a star - and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn't know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his? New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there's a lot they don't know about who they are and where they come from. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found.

The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us. 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect. To live amongst us. To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the worldOn 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 happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place?Jeanette Winterson OBE, whose writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the E.M. Forster Award, is the author of some of the most purely imaginative and pleasurable novels of recent times, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to her first book for children, Tanglewreck. She is also the author of the essays Art Objects.

A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen.

An evil Magus is intent on turning London into gold. Only a boy and his quick wits stand between the Magus and his goal Jeanette Winterson at her most inventive, lyrical, imaginative and brilliant.

In 2009, the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera reaches its 75th year. In commemoration of this event, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. A foreword from Ralph Fiennes and an introduction by Jeanette Winterson are followed Alexander McCall Smith on Cosi Fan Tutte; Ali Smith on Fidelio; Andrew Motion on Peter Grimes; Andrew O'Hagan on Eugene Onegin; Ann Enright on Rusalka;; Colm Toibin on Pearl Fishers; Jackie Kay on The Makropulos Case; Joanna Trollope on L'Elisir d'Amore; John Mortimer on Cosi Fan Tutte; Julie Myerson on The Crowning of Poppaea; Kate Atkinson on La Traviata; Kate Mosse on Pelleas et Melisande; Lynne Truss on The Turn of the Screw; Marina Warner on Dido and Aeneas; Posy Simmonds double page of 'Glyndebourne Midsummer Night'; Ruth Rendell on Theodora; Sebastian Barry on Natoma; Toby Litt on Don Giovanni.

"GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this a witches' Sabbat? Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial. Why is the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter defending them? And why is she among the group of thirteen on Pendle Hill? Elsewhere, a starved, abused child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter, recently returned from France, is widely rumoured to be heading for Lancashire. But who will offer him sanctuary? And how quickly can he be caught? This is the reign of James I, a Protestant King with an obsession: to rid his realm of twin evils, witchcraft and Catholicism, at any price ..."--Jacket.

For nearly 70 years, an English-language bookstore in Paris has served as a haven for renowned writers like Jorge Luis Borges, James Baldwin, A. M. Homes, and Dave Eggers, as well as aspiring authors and poets. Visitors can read in the library, enjoy tea, and even sleep among the towering shelves, with over 30,000 having stayed at this unique venue since 1951. This fully illustrated history draws from a century of previously unseen archives, combining photographs and ephemera with personal essays, diary entries, and poems from over seventy contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, and Sylvia Beach. The book showcases hundreds of images, Tumbleweed autobiographies, and historical documents, featuring illustrious guests like William Burroughs, Henry Miller, and Zadie Smith. It chronicles more than 100 years in the French capital, exploring the Lost Generation, the Beats, the Cold War, May '68, and the feminist movement, all while celebrating the enduring charm of bohemian life in Paris.

»Bezaubernde Weihnachtsgeschichten voller Eiszapfen und Mistelzweige.« Sunday Telegraph Geschichten und Rezepte für die Adventswochen und Weihnachtstage – was könnte es Schöneres geben, um diese Zeit des Zusammenkommens, des Feierns, Schenkens und Teilens zu genießen? Dieses Buch ist ein literarisches Winterwunderland und steckt voller unvergesslicher Figuren, märchenhafter Ereignisse und überraschender Begegnungen. Es ist die perfekte Lektüre für einen Abend am Kamin. Und es ist das schönste Geschenk, das man seinen Lieben machen kann: Weihnachtsmagie für die Seele.

Детство и юность живой и смышленой Дженет проходят в атмосфере бесконечных проповедей, религиозных праздников и душеспасительных бесед. Девочка с увлечением принимает участие в миссионерской деятельности общины, однако невольно отмечает, что её "добродетельные" родители и соседи весьма своеобразно трактуют учение Христа. С каждым днем ей все труднее мириться с лицемерием и ханжеством, процветающими в её окружении. Но однажды приходит любовь... и разрушает все, чем она жила до сих пор, -- семью, карьеру, веру в Бога и веру в людей. Но рушатся также и стены её крошечного сообщества, за которыми открывается большой, живой настоящий мир...

Kniha Dieťa v rovnováhe je vášnivý manifest prístupu k učeniu, ktorý berie do úvahy cele telo - integruje mozog, zmysly, pohyb a hru. Tento slovenský preklad revidovaného vydania obsahuje aj kapitolu určenú pre rodičov, aby mohli byť nápomocní svojim deťom pri rozvoji ich plného fyzického a mentálneho potenciálu. Tato praktická a inšpiratívna príručka pomôže rodičom a pedagógom porozumieť: - prečo je pohyb tak dôležitý - ako hudba pomáha pri vývine mozgu - aku úlohu hrá výživa, samotný mozog a rast dieťaťa - ako pomôcť dieťaťu pri problémoch v učení a správaní