Best Selling Books by Jeanette Winterson

In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves''s "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War''s centenary by reinvigorating these questions. The book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reimagining Karachi, Erwin Mortier on occupied Belgium''s legacy of shame, NoViolet Bulawayo on Zimbabwe and clarity, Ales Steger on resisting history in Slovenia, and Jeanette Winterson on what art is for. Contributors include: Ali Smith - Scotland Ales Steger - Slovenia Jeanette Winterson - England Elif Shafak - Turkey NoViolet Bulawayo - Zimbabwe Colm Toíbín - Ireland Xiaolu Guo - China Erwin Mortier - Belgium Kamila Shamsie - Pakistan Daniel Kehlmann - Germany

Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain''s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality.Examining recent women''s rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the women who won the right to vote, we need to shout up, reach out, be courageous and finish the job.Also included in this volume is Emmeline Pankhurst''s landmark Suffragette speech, ''Freedom or Death'', which she delivered in 1913.

Jeanette Winterson ci conduce nel mondo della comunicazione virtuale, trasformando la più straordinaria conquista dei nostri tempi in un alleato dei sentimenti. Ali, una scrittrice di storie via e-mail, inventa per chi si mette in contatto con lei la storia che si desidera.

Eine junge Schriftstellerin sitzt an ihrem Computer. Unter dem Namen Ali sendet sie Geschichten hinaus in die Weite der virtuellen Welt und lauert als Spinne im Netz auf elektronische Beute. Sie wartet auf E-Mails ihrer Geliebten, von der sie in der realen Welt für die schnöde Realität einer Ehe verlassen wurde. So wird Ali zur Scheherazade, die in einer einzigen Nacht versucht, schreibend den tragischen Ausgang ihrer Liebesgeschichte zu verändern. Jeanette Winterson vollbringt ein Virtuosenstück; aus der Unverbindlichkeit der Cyberworld fördert sie mit alchemistischer Gabe zu Tage, was Raum, Zeit und Identität überwinden und dadurch Dauer erlangen kann.

"The most highly publicized of the infamous Young British Artists, Emin has stirred as much controversy as she has acclaim, being both highly personal and extremely original in her art. Emin''s work is engaging, titillating, disturbing, and startlingly confessional. One of her most famous pieces is Everyone I Ever Slept With 1963-1995, a tent appliquEd with names. Another notorious work, My Bed--the scene where she spent four days contemplating suicide--was exhibited at Tate Britain when the artist was short-listed for the Turner prize in 1999. Though denounced by conservative critics at the outset, Emin''s work has attracted serious critical attention for more than a decade. In the words of Art in America, "What brought Emin to prominence was shock value, but what keeps her work powerful as she continues is the strength and nuance of its form and content." Compiled in close collaboration with the artist herself--and unprecedented in its scope--this is the definitive book on Emin, featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliquEs and embroideries, neon and video stills as well as her own writing."--Publisher''s website.

Two Jeanette Winterson film scripts. Set in the 1950s, Great Moments in Aviation features a young black woman with a passion for aeroplanes. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an award-winning television drama, is an adaptation of the author''s novel of the same name.

One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

In Greek mythology, Atlas, a member of the original race of gods called Titans, is punished for leading a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, is forced to bear the weight of the heavens for eternity. When Heracles is tasked with stealing these apples he seeks out Atlas, offering to shoulder the world temporarily if the Titan will bring him the fruit. Knowing that Heracles is the only person with the strength to take his burden, Atlas agrees and an uneasy partnership is born.

"Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanette''s insistence on listening to the truths of her own heart and mind--and on reporting them with wit and passion--makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood."--P. [4] of cover.

De levens van en de driehoeksverhouding tussen een Engelse vrouwelijke natuurkundige en een Amerikaanse natuurkundige en zijn vrouw worden verbonden met theorieën en ideeën over ruimte, tijd en materie.