Jeanette Winterson: The Gap of Time

UK 2015, 320 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Random House
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 the jealousy he feels towards his best friend ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry

UK 2014, 169 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
»Sexing the Cherry« celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body

UK 2014, 190 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
A seductive novel by the lesbian author of »The Passion« and »Sexing the Cherry«. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. »At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.«

Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

UK 2012, 230 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Vintage
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, »Oranges Are not the Only Fruit«, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's silent ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods

UK 2007, 209 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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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 of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Tanglewreck

UK 2006, 415 pp., brochure, € 12.95
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Bloomsbury
A little way in the future, Time is distorting. Time Tornados are causing havoc. People are whirled out of their own time, never to return, and a woolly mammoth has been seen on the banks of the River Thames. Written both as a charming children's fantasy about the value of time and a science-fiction with a female main character.

Jeanette Winterson: The World and Other Places

USA 2004, 227 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Jeanette Winterson is one of literature's most inventive writers, and in her first collection she demonstrates her mastery of the short story. With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these 17 works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear ... Weiterlesen

Beeban Kidron (R): Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

UK 2003, engl. OF, 165 min., € 19.99
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Jess is the adopted daughter of a strict evangelist. Her adopted mam thinks she's the chosen one from God. With an upbringing spent learning the bible and praying for »heathens in hot countries« she unnerves both classmates and teachers when she begins school. But she fancies girls. And an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Later in life she ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: The Power Book

UK 2001, 244 pp., pb, € 17.95
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This is a meditation on adultery, or rather, on what it means to be in love with a married woman. The author is famously a champion of relativity, of the existence of many possible paths and disguises: »The.PowerBook« uses the language of computers, but thankfully this is all rather lightly done. Some of the images are obvious - it's no ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

USA 1985, 182 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Grove Press
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with lesbian (that is: unorthodox) sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing ... Weiterlesen