The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, Paperback - A. S. Byatt

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...

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

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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...

In this collection of poetry, you may find words to delight, intrigue or evoke awareness of things half-forgotten. Those uneasy about new direction...

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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...

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

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

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

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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...

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This is a quintessential book for Cinema buffs and particularly those who are passionate about Tamil cinema, which has the distinction of having pl...

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Shame is everywhere, but mostly we don't understand it and often confuse it with other things. How can we experience genuine freedom and help other...

Bea loves lions and knows everything there is to know about them. She lives by the beach, but she doesn't like sand one little bit One day, her mot...

DescriptionThere is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Edinburgh based poet, Jane Aldous - Jinn was her family nickname, a...

Reducere. Barbara and the Djinn is an exciting story of a young girl's trip into a mysterious and magical book that transports her places her imagination cou...

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An examination of spectacles and those who wore them through history, art, literature and technology.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Stefana Sa...

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Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title challenges basic assumptions ...

When two kids visit Grandma's house for their usual visit, they can't help but think she's stuffy and no fun at all. Even the dinner she makes is p...

Description"Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit."--The ObserverGiven the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. B...

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On a good day, any sane person could never imagine what it would feel like to be on a doomed crashing jetliner, much less live to tell the tale. A ...

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