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Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
50.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt's short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will d ...Show more
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
40.00 NZD
Category: History
An alluring and atmospheric enquiry into the creative impulse -- as seen through the work and lives of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris -- by one of our greatest novelists. This ravishing little book, glowing with colour and generously illustrated throughout, opens a window on to the lives, passio ...Show more
Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
17.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Possessionis an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant 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 trag ...Show more
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Myth Series) by A. S. Byatt
30.00 NZD
Category: Children
Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writer find? As the bombs rain down in the Battle of Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is strugg ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
27.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children's book author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and frie ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
39.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
This vivid, rich and moving saga is played out against the great, rippling tides of the day, taking us from the Kent marshes to Paris and Munich and the trenches of the Somme. Born at the end of the Victorian era, growing up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, a whole generation grew up unaware of ...Show more
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