Jeanette Winterson
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.
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The Stone Gods
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39723-2 (0-307-39723-8)
May 5, 2009 | $19.95
A glimpse into unlikely love braved in the face of the void. 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...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39723-2 (0-307-39723-8)
May 5, 2009 | $19.95
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A glimpse into unlikely love braved in the face of the void. 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...
Weight
Trade Paperback | 168 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mythology
978-0-676-97423-2 (0-676-97423-6)
August 15, 2006 | $17.95
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 questions we ask ourselves every day — Winterson’s...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 168 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mythology
978-0-676-97423-2 (0-676-97423-6)
August 15, 2006 | $17.95
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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 questions we ask ourselves every day — Winterson’s...
Lighthousekeeping
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97686-1 (0-676-97686-7)
December 27, 2005 | $19.95
Motherless and anchorless, red-headed Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, located at the isolated northwestern tip of Scotland. Pew teaches her to “man the light” but more importantly he tells her ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97686-1 (0-676-97686-7)
December 27, 2005 | $19.95
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Motherless and anchorless, red-headed Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, located at the isolated northwestern tip of Scotland. Pew teaches her to “man the light” but more importantly he tells her ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and...
The Powerbook
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97335-8 (0-676-97335-3)
October 23, 2001 | $19.95
The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97335-8 (0-676-97335-3)
October 23, 2001 | $19.95
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The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Passion
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97349-5 (0-676-97349-3)
October 24, 2000 | $19.95
Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97349-5 (0-676-97349-3)
October 24, 2000 | $19.95
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Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice's compound...
The Powerbook
Hardcover | 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97334-1 (0-676-97334-5)
October 24, 2000 | $32.95
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're prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Hardcover | 304 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-676-97334-1 (0-676-97334-5)
October 24, 2000 | $32.95
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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're prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Sexing the Cherry
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97348-8 (0-676-97348-5)
October 24, 2000 | $19.95
In the reign of Charles II, Jordan and his mother, the Dog-Woman, live on the banks of the stinking Thames, where they take in sights ranging from the first pineapple in London to Royalist heads on pikes. As a young man, Jordan leaves to travel the world, seeking wonder and knowledge...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97348-8 (0-676-97348-5)
October 24, 2000 | $19.95
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In the reign of Charles II, Jordan and his mother, the Dog-Woman, live on the banks of the stinking Thames, where they take in sights ranging from the first pineapple in London to Royalist heads on pikes. As a young man, Jordan leaves to travel the world, seeking wonder and knowledge...
The World and Other Places
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97255-9 (0-676-97255-1)
June 27, 2000 | $17.95
In this, her first collection of short stories, Jeanette Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. Whether transporting us to bizarre new geographies - a world where sleep is illegal, an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewellery made of coal - or recalling the joy and pain...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97255-9 (0-676-97255-1)
June 27, 2000 | $17.95
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In this, her first collection of short stories, Jeanette Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. Whether transporting us to bizarre new geographies - a world where sleep is illegal, an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewellery made of coal - or recalling the joy and pain...
Gut Symmetries
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97102-6 (0-676-97102-4)
July 28, 1998 | $21.00
Gut Symmetries is an appropriate title for a book whose protagonists include Alice and Jove, two theoretical physicists who are conducting a high-voltage adulterous love affair when they are not seeking a Grand Unified Theory of nature. When Alice confronts Jove's wife, Stella, she quickly falls in love with her, resulting...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97102-6 (0-676-97102-4)
July 28, 1998 | $21.00
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Gut Symmetries is an appropriate title for a book whose protagonists include Alice and Jove, two theoretical physicists who are conducting a high-voltage adulterous love affair when they are not seeking a Grand Unified Theory of nature. When Alice confronts Jove's wife, Stella, she quickly falls in love with her, resulting...
Boating for Beginners
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-7493-9151-5 (0-7493-9151-0)
August 4, 1997 | $21.95
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.
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-7493-9151-5 (0-7493-9151-0)
August 4, 1997 | $21.95
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.
Art Objects
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-394-28170-4 (0-394-28170-5)
November 26, 1996 | $17.95
In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-394-28170-4 (0-394-28170-5)
November 26, 1996 | $17.95
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In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point...
Art & Lies
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28081-3 (0-394-28081-4)
June 24, 1995 | $17.95
'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28081-3 (0-394-28081-4)
June 24, 1995 | $17.95
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'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book...
Written On The Body
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28014-1 (0-394-28014-8)
September 27, 1993 | $19.95
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the 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.
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28014-1 (0-394-28014-8)
September 27, 1993 | $19.95
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the 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.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-993570-4 (0-09-993570-8)
July 27, 1992 | $21.95
Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It’s a love story, too. Winterson’s adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama...
Written by Jeanette Winterson
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Books | Fiction
978-0-09-993570-4 (0-09-993570-8)
July 27, 1992 | $21.95
Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It’s a love story, too. Winterson’s adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama...
