Jeanette Winterson

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....

A magical, wonderful modern classic about the destinies of Napoleon’s faithful cook and the daughter of a Venetian boatman....

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna....

Jeanette Winterson tackles her own reality in her riveting memoir. In this remarkable book she confronts the various paths her childhood took....

In a fantastic world that is and is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world’s most curious oddities come from his own mind....

For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmastime, and here she brings together 12 of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales....

In 12 Bytes, the New York Times best-selling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson draws on her years of thinking and reading about artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations....

Frankissstein is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love....

Jeanette Winterson asks difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in her dazzling retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles....

Jeanette Winterson joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios....

In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions....

Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One...

¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?, preguntó la señora Winterson a su hija Jeanette cuando ella, recién cumplidos los dieciséis años, le confesó haberse enamorado de otra chica....

In questi dodici saggi, l'autrice di "Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?" rielabora i suoi anni di riflessioni e letture sull'intelligenza...

Questi tredici racconti affrontano una vasta gamma di argomenti legati al soprannaturale: dal modo in cui la tecnologia moderna può condizionare la nostra percezione della vita e della morte a storie ambientate in luoghi infestati, come case abbandonate e castelli misteriosi, dove le presenze del pa

Jordan decide di mettersi in viaggio per conoscere il mondo. Scoprirà presto che l'unico limite all'avventura umana risiede nella forza dell'immaginazione.

La storia dell'incontro fra tre strani personaggi: Handel, un ex sacerdote divenuto chirurgo...

Adottata da una famiglia religiosissima della provincia inglese - dove «i pagani sono dappertutto, specialmente alla porta accanto» - la piccola Jeanette impara tutto sulle sacre scritture ma niente sul resto del mondo.

La storia della passione non corrisposta di Henri, cuoco nell'esercito di Napoleone, per la figlia lesbica di un gondoliere veneziano...

In questi dieci saggi brillanti e provocatori Jeanette Winterson, una delle più stimate e anticonformiste narratrici contemporanee, rivela il suo personale e imprevedibile...