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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she l ...Show more
Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Winterson Jeanette (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary materializes for the first time: an exhilarating hallucination of surreal and beautiful images that remain in memory long after you put the book down. Orlando has it all: lif ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches' Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder. It is set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined; when, following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, ev ...Show more
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare
'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 ...Show more
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
"'A shining delight of a novel'New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars'Financial TimesA baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't ...Show more
The Lion, The Unicorn and Me by HARTMAN BOB & NAGY KRISZTINA KALLAI
$15.99 AUD
Category: Children | Reading Level: From 5 To 12
In this beautiful retelling of the story of the very first Christmas, the humble donkey is chosen above all 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 r ...Show more
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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 world 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 o ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Literary | Reading Level: very good
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more