Angela Carter

Angela Carter spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends in her literary masterpiece....

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity....

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered....

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter....

Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself....

Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist....

A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances....

These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short story form. Lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan....

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape....

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians....

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971....

Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause....

Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of 'abroad' in this collection of Carter's work as a critic....

The scar drew her whole face sideways, and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lopsided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone....

This comprehensive volume of Angela Carter's journalism is the most down-to-earth and entertaining companion to latter 20th-century thought you'll ever need....

Nora and Dora, the 'famous' Chance sisters, prepare to go to their father's 100th birthday party. With a wide and colourful, often rather crazy cast, the story veers off in a multitude of directions....

Shortly before her death Angela Carter was preparing this volume of short stories, one which does full justice to the glory of her imagination and the range of her talent....