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A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Frederica Potter Novels Ser.
While Frederica - the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life and Babel Tower - falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves.In the late 1960s the world be ...Show more
A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt
54.95 NZD
59.95 (8% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Frederica is the spirited heroine of three earlier Byatt novels. In this, the concluding volume of the quartet, she falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves.
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
25.99 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 de ...Show more
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
40.00 NZD
Category: Fine Art
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
Portraits in Fiction by A.S. Byatt
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The extended version of a lecture given by Byatt at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2000, about portraits in fiction and about portraits of writers of fiction. She delves into the complex relations between the two, ranging from Henry James to Iris Murdoch and from Botticelli to Manet.
Possession by A.S. Byatt
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud Bailey discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers. This is a tie-in edition to the film starring Gwynneth Paltrow.
Possession: A Romance by A S Byatt
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Reading Level: very good
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
Possession : A Romance by A. S. Byatt
21.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Vintage 21
"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 ...Show more
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Myth Series) by A. S. Byatt
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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 Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY 'In th ...Show more
The Biographer's Tale by A S Byatt
26.95 NZD
28.99 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S.Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G decides to study the messiness of 'real life' Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard ...Show more
The Children's Book by A S Byatt
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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