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  • Possession

    A Romance

    by A S Byatt ...
    Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a captivating love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Women Writers’ Handbook

    by Caryl Churchill, Jill Hyem, Ann Sandham, AS Byatt, Philippa Gregory ...
    DescriptionA revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, this new edition features poems, stories, essays and interviews with 30 + women writers, both emerging authors and luminaries of contemporary literature such as:– Choices: The Writing of Possession by A.S. Byatt– Becoming a ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Children's Book

    by A. S. Byatt ...
    From the renowned author of Possession, The Children’s Bookistheabsorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with the cataclysmic destruction of World War I. In this compelling novel, A.S. Byatt summons up a whole era, revealing that beneath its golden surface lay tensions that would explode into war, revolution and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Whistling Woman

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    Series series The Frederica Potter Novels
    It is 1968 and Frederica Potter is surprised to find herself embarking on a new career in television. While she endeavours to navigate this fast-paced and occasionally bewildering industry, her lover John takes up a post working with a pair of unusual scientists. Yet in Frederica’s home county of Yorkshire, tumultuous events are unfolding. Soon her future, and that of the people closest to her, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Degrees of Freedom

    The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    First published in 1965, A.S. Byatt's Degrees of Freedom examined the first eight novels of Iris Murdoch, identifying freedom as a central theme in all of them, and looking at Murdoch's interest in the relations between art and goodness, master and slave, and the novel of character in the nineteenth century sense. Drawing on Iris Murdoch's own critical and philosphical writing, A.S. Byatt ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Grimm Reader

    The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Edited by Maria Tatar ...
    Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. With some of the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angels And Insects

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals – some fictional, others drawn from history – gather to connect with the spirit world. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Matisse Stories

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    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 the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being.Their subjects' lives unravel from simple beginnings -- a trip to the hair dresser, a cleaning woman's passion for knitting, lunch in a Chinese ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Faust, Part I

    by Goethe, A. S. Byatt ...
    Translated by David Constantine ...
    Series Book 1 - Faust
    Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last for ever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye

    Five Fairy Stories

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    **FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately.Here they take their place with three other stories with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ragnarok

    The End of the Gods

    by A. S. Byatt ...
    Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory.As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Raw Material (Storycuts)

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    A downtrodden creative writing teacher despairs at the efforts of his students, at turns nakedly autobiographical or fanciful beyond reason. When an elderly lady begins submitting work in accordance with his 'write what you know' directive, his enthusiasm for the craft re-emerges. However some sources are best left unexplored.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD