A Whistling Woman, Paperback - A S Byatt

It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. Soon her future, and that of the people close...

Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields - fro...

A.S. Byatt's sequel to >The Virgin in the Garden< is an observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s. Frederica Potter...

The perfect gift for Valentine's DayPossession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant lov...

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A whistling woman and a crowing hen never come to a very good end.In the waning years of the 19th century, Bessie Daniels grows up in the small tow...

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of...

Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about t...

A literary essay opening a window on to the lives, passions and designs of two charismatic artists, Mariano Fortuny and William Morris. Byatt is au...

From Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy, through Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf, right up to Graha...

Publisher: Persephone Books LtdAuthor(s): A. S. ByattNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 191 x 139 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports the reader to a world where oppos...

Reissues of classic A.S. Byatt novels with new illustrative covers. Byatt has won the Booker prize along with other plaudits.

Reducere. These three stories celebrate the eye even as they reveal its unexpected proximity to the heart. For if each of A.S. Byatt's narratives is in some ...

Reducere. From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children's book author Olive We...

In the same delectable format as The Matisse Stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion ...

DescriptionThe magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extr...

The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bott...

DescriptionThe Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary...

Byatt is a vivid colourist' Sunday Times'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' Spectator 'These little stories by one of Britain's foremos...

Like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an e...

Female Symbolic Confinement with Jean Rhys, Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, and Margaret Atwood - Iulia Rosu

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Sesi is a person who has been tutored as a child to 'do your best for the Lord'. Each accomplishment was praised and rewarded. With each step forwa...

Reducere. Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the fire...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: "You'll fe...

Reducere. Hazel Scott was a champion for civil and women's rights. Born in Trinidad in 1920, she moved with her family to the United States in 1924. She was ...

'There aren't many books that can claim to change your life, but this one will.' Clare Balding'A force for good, for change.

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Reducere. Have you ever wondered what dying feels like? This is a tragic love story. It is a true story. However, more importantly, it is a story about love,...

Reducere. Born Simone Jules, reinvented as Eleanor Dumont, and largely remembered as Madame Moustache, A BETTING WOMAN is a historical novel inspired by the ...

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Reducere. Justice wasn't her concern. Until Now.Bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is struggling to rebuild her life after a series of terrorist attacks shattered her...

Reducere. The Token Woman is an entertaining how-to filled with practical, helpfultips on becoming an effective sales leader. If you have ever aspired to be ...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Louise OmerNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 210 x 27Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. 1. Black Hearted Love (4: 40) 2. Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen (3: 36) 3. Leaving California (3: 56) 4. The Chair (2: 29) 5. April (4: 41) 6. A Woman ...

Reducere. Our Fair Ones is a story of a young girl who has the desire to know who she is, why she exists and if there is anything after this life. She and he...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Lindy Elkins-TantonNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 238 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. Side ABlack Hearted LoveSixteen, Fifteen, FourteenLeaving CaliforniaThe ChairAprilSide BA Woman A Man Walked By / The Crow Knows Where All The Litt...

Reducere. It has been 17 years since this book has challenged mature Christian women to mentor younger wives and mothers. This expanded version includes valu...

Quietly Visible is written from the perspective of the lived experience of the author (herself an introvert), her clients, her research, and the ma...

Best-selling author Laurie Aaron Hird of The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt shares the next installment of this beloved series. A few years before Ada...