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.
Jeanette Winterson Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Jeanette Winterson geldt als een van de meest originele stemmen in de Britse fictie die in de jaren tachtig opkwamen. Haar schrijven duikt vaak in thema's als identiteit en geloof, vaak geïnspireerd door haar fervente opvoeding. Winterson wordt geprezen om haar kenmerkende stilistische benadering en haar scherpe inzichten in de menselijke conditie. Haar werken worden in 28 landen gepubliceerd en ze levert regelmatig recensies en artikelen aan belangrijke kranten en tijdschriften.







Mrs Dalloway
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London, at the end of the First World War, basks in the summer heat, and Clarissa - Mrs Dalloway - prepares for one of her charming evening parties. Yet as the evening approaches, the unexpected arrival from India of her first lover Peter Walsh, triggers vivid memories of the past until, piece by piece, Clarissa brings to the surface the story of her life, of childhood dreams, and the row so many years ago that precipitated her uneventful marriage. She is suddenly and startlingly aware of the force of life going on around her; of Septimus Warren Smith going quietly mad with shell-shock; of her daughter Elizabeth, almost now a woman, and of Peter, unaltered, yet changed as she feels herself to be. In 'Mrs Dalloway', Virginia Woolf reveals the differences in the way people think and see and treat one another, brilliantly evoking the feel of the time and, through the eyes of each character, the feel of life itself.
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...
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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.
De levende berg
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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.
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.
Die Weihnachtszeit und die Tage »zwischen den Jahren« sind eine Zeit des Zusammenkommens, eine Zeit des Feierns, Schenkens und Teilens. Und was eignet sich dafür besser als eine gute Geschichte? Jeanette Wintersons Winter- und Weihnachtsgeschichten laden dazu ein, am Kamin gelesen zu werden, zusammen oder allein, im Schnee oder auf dem Weg nach Hause. Sie wollen mit Freunden geteilt oder, hübsch verpackt, an einen geliebten Menschen verschenkt werden. Zu jeder der zwölf Geschichten hat die Autorin ein Rezept ausgewählt, mit dem sie Anekdoten und lieb gewonnene kulinarische Traditionen an ihre Leser weitergibt. Liebevoll ausgestattete Ausgabe mit Leinenrücken und Lesebändchen. Weitere berührende Wunderraum-Geschichten finden Sie in unserem kostenlosen aktuellen Leseproben-E-Book »Einkuscheln und loslesen – Bücher für kurze Tage und lange Nächte«
Love
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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
Shakespeare and Company, Paris
A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart
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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.
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.
Dieťa v rovnováhe
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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
'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.
"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.
Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?
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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.
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.
Midsummer Nights
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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.
The Battle of the Sun
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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.
The Stone Gods. Die steinernen Götter
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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.
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.
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.
Lighthousekeeping
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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.
Weight
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A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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.
Het powerboek
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Een Engelse internet-auteur schrijft verhalen over o.a. haar liefde voor een getrouwde vrouw.
The Waves
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The Waves is a poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival Regarded by some as her greatest literary work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.
De wereld en andere plaatsen
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Verhalen over meisjes en vrouwen die enigszins buiten de maatschappij staan.
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.
Gut Symmetries
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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?
Art Objects
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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.
Kersen kruisen
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Een vrouw en jongen in het 17e-eeuwse Engeland blijken zich in bizarre 20e-eeuwse fantasieën te bevinden.
Art & Lies
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A novel by the author of "Oranges are not the Only Fruit", which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1985, "The Passion", which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1987, "Sexing the Cherry" and "Written on the Body".
Written on the Body
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Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
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.
Sexing the Cherry
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In the reign of Charles II, Jordan and his mother, the Dog-Woman, live on the banks of the stinking Thames, where they take in sights ranging from the first pineapple in London to Royalist heads on pikes. As a young man, Jordan leaves to travel the world, seeking wonder and knowledge, and learns that every journey conceals another within it. Sexing The Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.
De passie
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Een soldaat-kok in het Franse leger verliest zijn hart aan Napoleon en vervolgens aan een Venetiaanse gondeliersdochter.
Thirteen stories offer fresh looks at the relationship between men and women by using dream imagery and surrealism
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
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"Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles"--Jacket.































