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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Collected in a single volume for the first time -- an unforgettable book of short stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession that explores the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss, and the elaborate memories we...

• Dec-1988
• / General Fiction
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a wonderfully erudite novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably."Large, complex, ambitious, humming with ene...

• Oct-1990
• / Historical Romance
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorg...

• Nov-1992
• / General Fiction
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a novel portraying a sibling rivalry which compels us to reconsider the uses and misuses of imagination."Complex and thoughtful." -- The Times Literary SupplementWhen they were little girls, Ca...

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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In these two “astonishing” novellas (The New Yorker), the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession returns to the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and...

• 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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Three delightful stories inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse -- from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and “a writer of dazzling inventiveness" (Time)."[An] exquisite triptych.... Richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to ...

• Nov-1997
• / General Fiction
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A stunning collection of fairy tales for grown-ups from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, 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). Includes the stor...

• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents an extraordinary story set against the backdrop of the 1960s -- a turbulent decade of clashing politics, passionate ideals, and shifting sexual roles.  At the heart of Babel Tower are two l...

• Mar-1999
• / Suspense
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a short story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites -- passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice -- clash and converge."A wonderful book -- complex, ...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for certainty.“Elegant ... witty ... intelligent.” -- The Washington PostHere is th...

• Dec-2002
• / General Fiction
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The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives. “Rich, acerbic, wise.... [By...

• Apr-2004
• / Fantasy
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An unforgettable collection of fairy tales for grownups -- from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “A delight.... provoking and alarming, richly yet tautly rendered.... [She] has the sheer narrative skill to raise the hair...

• Oct-2004
• / Literary
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The ideal introduction to the novels, stories, and essays of fabulist, realist, critic, and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession. • “Byatt is a gifted observer, able to discern the exact details that bring whole worlds into being.” -...

• 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...