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A Romance
'Shimmers with something close to genius... it is a modern masterpiece' Daily Mail Rediscover the classic Booker Prize-winning novel of romance, histo...
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhil...
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney ...
Selected Essays
In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusse...
Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious a...
Stories of Fire and Ice
In the same delectable format as The Matisse Stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - t...
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man...
It should come as no surprise that short stories by the author of the magical Possession are populated by erudite paranoiacs, witches, changelings, an...
The End of the Gods
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 li...
It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fast-paced...
Man Booker Prize Winner
Three delightful stories inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse—from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and “a writer of dazzling inve...
A Novel
It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated...
A new collection of Byatt stories is always a winner and never fails to delight. This one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as magica...
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupie...
Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an ex...
After her husband becomes violent, Frederica Potter flees with her young son to London. There, she secures a teaching position in an art school, and f...
This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, toge...
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly inte...
Selected Writings
In Passions of the Mind, A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and ...
Elementals is a collection of imaginative stories written in A S Byatt's distinctive style, probing the motivations of a most unlikely but intriguing ...
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Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, wr...
Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time
Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement an...
A collection of short stories including subjects as diverse as memories, marriage, insects and ghosts. A.S. Byatt's other books include Possession, wi...
On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny
From the winner of the Booker Prize: A ravishing book that opens a window into the lives, designs, and passions of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris,...
Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work
This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposi...
Selected Stories
A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge...
Die Geschichte zweier Schwestern mit unterschiedlichen Lebensentwürfen....
The only piece of erotic literature in the Bible, this book was regarded by earlier devotees as an allegory of God's love for his people. Taking the f...
The Myth of Ragnarok
The story of Ragnarok plays out the endgame of Norse mythology. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the god themselv...
Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eli Ot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison
The bestselling author of "Possession" pairs her searching intelligence with the insights of psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre in a free-wheeling and exhilara...
2020 - 30th Anniversary Edition
Six Conversations about Women Writers - Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have ...