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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.

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.

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

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true.

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.

Henri Had A Passion For Napoleon And Napoleon Had A Passion For Chicken. From Boulogne To Moscow Henri Butchered For His Emperor And Never Killed A Single Man. With A De-Frocked Priest And A Midget Groom, Henri Witnessed The Scourge Of Europe. In Venice, The City Of Chance And Disguises, A Great Beauty Was Born With The Webbed Feet Of Her Boatman Father. In The Casino, Villanelle Learned That What People Risk Reveals What They Value - She Gambled Her Heart And Lost. For Eight Years The Soldier-Chef Watched Young Men Die And His Love For Napoleon Turned To Hate. Passion Does Not Take Disappointment Well. He Found The Venetian Beauty Whose Heart Was Lost And Together They Fled Frozen Russia To The Canals Of Darkness And Paradox.

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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.

Written on the Body is a love story; the narrator a vulnerable and subversive Lothario, gender undeclared. Generous in scope, sumptuous in detail, Jeanette Winterson has fused mathematical exactness and poetic intensity and made language new

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.