A.S. Byatt

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction
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From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life a...

• May-1987
• / General Fiction
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A.S. Byatt's short fictions, collected in paperback for the first time, explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other ...

• Dec-1988
• / General Fiction
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Brought together for the first time, two early novels from this author, set in Yorkshire, Cambridge and London between 1953 and 1959, and following the fortunes of 3 characters through academic, business and family life....

• Oct-1990
• / Historical Romance
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National Bestseller
 
Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of yo...

• Nov-1992
• / General Fiction
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The Game is a lush and disturbing novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels the reader to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination. when they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world m...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. A...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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This is the debut novel by the author of the bestselling Possession. Byatt tells the story of troubled, sensitive seventeen-year-old Anna Severell, who struggles to discover and develop her own personality in the shadow of her father, a renowned nove...

• May-1994
• / General Fiction
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Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her ow...

• Apr-1995
• / General Fiction
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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 way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing ...

• Nov-1997
• / General Fiction
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The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that ...

• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a stunning, contemporary story set against the clashing politics, passionate ideals, and shifting sexual roles of the early 1960s. In Byatt's vision, the presiding genius of the day seems to be a...

• Mar-1999
• / Suspense
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From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites--passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice--clash and converge.

A beautifu...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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From the award-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for fact.

Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who de...

• Dec-2002
• / General Fiction
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This intoxicating novel stands on its own, while forming a triumphant conclusion to a s byatts great quartet depicting the clashing forces in english life from the early 1950s to 1970 while frederica falls almost by accident into a career in televisi...

• Apr-2004
• / Fantasy
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A new collection of stories from a s byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were gi...

• Oct-2004
• / Literary
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Fabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays allow us ...

• Sep-2007
• / General Fiction
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• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each, she writes a private book, bound in its own colour and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a storybook worl...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories , edited by A. S. Byatt, herself the author of several collections of short stories, is the first anthology to specifically take the English short story as its theme. The 37 stories featured here are selected ...

• Oct-2011
• / Fantasy
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Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War II raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed....

• Feb-2012
• / Literary
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Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the ...

• Jun-2019
• / General Fiction
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As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transfor...

• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction
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A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction...