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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 27 titles



  • The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author interweaves the destinies of Napoleon’s cook and an enigmatic Venetian woman in this “arresting, elegant novel” (Publishers Weekly). A faithful soldier of the Grande ArmĂ©e, Henri is given the honor of se...



  • A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" (winner of the 1985 Whitbr...



  • “The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel.” -- The New York Times  Winner of the E. M. Forster Award   In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-ce...



  • The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s Whitbread Prizeâ€"winning debut -- “Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World).   When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extr...



  • This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affai...



  • One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visio...



  • The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity.O...



  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson's delectable first novel, announced the arrival of 'a fresh voice with a mind behind it,' as Muriel Spark has written. 'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides'--...



  • Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you'r...






  • When a greedy king wakes up one morning, everything he owns has gone - blown across the bay to neighbouring Naples. When a poor and humble washerwoman wakes up that same morning her back yard is full of things that simply were not there the night bef...



  • An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion.   After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of...



  • The story of Atlas and Heracles.

    Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight -- visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questi...



  • This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long...



  • But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it!
    In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a sevent...



  • Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city.But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involv...



  • With Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Alexander McCall Smith, Andrew O'Hagan, Kate Mosse, Andrew Motion, Colm TĂłibĂ­n, Joanna Trollope, Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson & more In this stunning collection, the best and brightest writers...



  • The Daylight Gate is best-selling writer Jeanette Winterson's vision of a dark period of complicated morality, sex, and tragic plays for power in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined. After the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, every Cath...



  • THE WINTER'S TALE is one of Shakespeare's late plays. It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian c...



  • THE WINTER'S TALE is one of Shakespeare's late plays. It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian c...






  • 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 o...



  • For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the Twelve Days of Christmas. These tales g...



  • For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales. For the Twelve Days of Christmas -- a time of celebration, sharing, and giving -- s...



  • This “thought-provoking and . . . unabashedly entertaining . . . novel defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms” (Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review).Lake Geneva, 1...







  • A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection...



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    Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . . Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the...


Award-Winning Books by Jeanette Winterson

Written On The Body
1993 Lambda Literary Award -- Lesbian Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeanette Winterson has published 27 books.

Jeanette Winterson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Night Side of the River, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, was published in March 1990.

No. Jeanette Winterson does not write books in series.