<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author interweaves the destinies of Napoleon&rsquo;s cook and an enigmatic Venetian woman in this &ldquo;arresting, elegant novel&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). A faithful soldier of the Grande Arm&eacute;e, Henri is given the honor of serving meals to Napoleon himself. After all, Henri is short&mdash;and no one over five-foot-two ever serves the emperor. But when following his revered leader brings him to near-starvation in Russia&rsquo;s frozen winter, Henri is disillusioned and desperate for escape. The web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, Villanelle has long been acquainted with the advantages of dishonesty. Trust hasn&rsquo;t been her strong suit since her heart was stolen&mdash;literally&mdash;by a noblewoman she once loved. Soon these two will meet their shared destiny in the chaotic carnival that is early 19th century Venice. In The Passion, Whitbread Award-winning author Jeanette Winterson delivers a &ldquo;historical novel quite different from any other&rdquo; (Vanity Fair). &ldquo;Recalls Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez . . . Magical touches dance like highlights over the brilliance of this fairy tale about passion, gambling, madness, and androgynous ecstasy.&rdquo; &mdash;Edmund White</div>

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The Passion

<div>A New York Times bestseller: The &ldquo;magnificent&rdquo; memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time&mdash;&ldquo;A tour de force of literature and love&rdquo; (Vogue). One of the New York Times&rsquo; &ldquo;50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years&rdquo; Jeanette Winterson&rsquo;s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a &ldquo;singular and electric&rdquo; memoir about a life&rsquo;s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging&mdash;for love, identity, home, and a mother.</div>

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

<div>A &ldquo;profound and provocative&rdquo; reimagining of the Greek legend by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (Daily Mail). With wit and verve, Whitbread Award&ndash;winning novelist Jeanette Winterson brings the mythical figure of Atlas into the space age and sets him free at last. In her retelling of the story of a god tricked into holding the world on his shoulders and his brief reprieve, she sets difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, how we choose our own destiny and at the same time can liberate ourselves from our seeming fate. &ldquo;Dazzling . . . Winterson&rsquo;s embrace of the mythic landscape is evident in her rich imagery . . . cathartic . . . this short novel fulfills a number of the criteria myth is meant to embody&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Weight

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s Whitbread Prize&ndash;winning debut&mdash;&ldquo;Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson&rsquo;s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl&rsquo;s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself 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 dissolves. Jeanette&rsquo;s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind&mdash;and on reporting them with wit and passion&mdash;makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. &ldquo;If Flannery O&rsquo;Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson&rsquo;s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson&rsquo;s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you&rsquo;ve never heard before.&rdquo; &mdash;Ms. Magazine</div>

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

<div>&ldquo;The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Winner of the E. M. Forster Award In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the globe like Gulliver&mdash;though he finds that the most curious oddities come from his own mind. The spiraling tale leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan&rsquo;s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that jumps from epiphany to shimmering epiphany. From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Sexing the Cherry is &ldquo;a mixture of The Arabian Nights touched by the philosophical form of Milan Kundera and told with the grace of Italo Calvino&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). &ldquo;Those who care for fiction that is both idiosyncratic and beautiful will want to read anything [Winterson] writes.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World</div>

Sexing the Cherry

<div>Holiday stories and recipes by the New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?&mdash;&ldquo;otherworldly and wickedly funny&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time, inspired by the mysteries and traditions of the season. Here she brings together twelve of her funny and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the Twelve Days of Christmas. From jovial spirits to a donkey with a golden nose, a haunted house to a SnowMama, Winterson&rsquo;s original and imaginative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. These tales pair perfectly with Winterson&rsquo;s original recipes, or ones contributed by literary friends including Ruth Rendell, Kathy Acker, and others. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic with this &ldquo;holiday treasure&hellip;to be pulled out on a December night, fireside, and read aloud&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;If you crave the mystery, the family rituals, and the special victuals of Christmastime, you&rsquo;ll savor . . . bold, revelatory feminist writer Jeanette Winterson&rsquo;s Christmas Days.&rdquo; &mdash;Elle</div>

Christmas Days

<div>&ldquo;A gripping and grisly gothic tale&rdquo; of Alice Nutter and the 17th century Pendle witch hunt by the Whitbread Award-winning author of The Passion (The Guardian, UK). England, 1612. Less than a decade after the infamous Gunpowder Plot nearly took his life, King James I is paranoid about conspirators and obsessed with heresy. Across the country, laws against Catholicism and witchery are fanatically enforced. On Good Friday, deep in the woods of Pendle Hill, a gathering of thirteen is interrupted by the local magistrate. Two of their coven have already been imprisoned for witchcraft and are awaiting trial, but those who remain are vouched for by the wealthy and respected Alice Nutter. Shrouded in mystery and gifted with eternally youthful beauty, Alice is established in Lancashire society and insulated by her fortune. As those accused of witchcraft retreat into darkness, Alice stands alone as a realm-crosser, a conjurer of powers that will either destroy her or set her free.</div>

The Daylight Gate

<div>This “thought-provoking and . . . unabashedly entertaining . . . novel defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms” (Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review). Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead . . . but waiting to return to life. Since her astonishing debut Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide acclaim as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle). In Frankissstein, she shares an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love. Longlisted for the Booker Prize</div>

Frankissstein

<div>&ldquo;Witty [and] provocative&rdquo; essays on how AI might change us by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (Kirkus Reviews). When we create non-biological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when humans form connections with non-human helpers, teachers, sex-workers, and companions? And what will happen to our deep-rooted assumptions about gender? Will the physical body that is our home soon be enhanced by biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected? Is it time to join Elon Musk and leave Planet Earth? In twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence that look to history, religion, myth, literature, politics, and computer science to help us understand, Jeanette Winterson tackles AI&rsquo;s most fascinating talking points, from the algorithms that data-dossier your whole life to the weirdness of backing up your brain. &ldquo;Thought-provoking and necessary&mdash;and sometimes very funny.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Fascinating. . . . Winterson makes granular tech know-how remarkably accessible.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

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<div>An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. Pew&mdash;blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Pew&rsquo;s story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. It&rsquo;s one that Silver must follow if she&rsquo;s to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. &ldquo;In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling&hellip;Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson&#39;s high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.&rdquo;&mdash;The New Yorker </div>

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Lighthousekeeping

<div>The Whitbread Prize&ndash;winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that &ldquo;transports us to something like the future of our own planet&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet&mdash;pristine and habitable, like our own was sixty-five million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they&rsquo;re assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike&rsquo;s flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past&mdash;&ldquo;Everything is imprinted forever with what it once was.&rdquo; What will happen when their story combines with the world&rsquo;s story? Will they&mdash;and we&mdash;ever find a safe landing place? Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, The Stone Gods will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love, and about stories themselves. &ldquo;Scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;[A book] that you don&rsquo;t so much read as drink in, refuse to put down, cast inside of like a hunting dog, seeking against all odds the insight that will illuminate everything, a true answer to the fix we&rsquo;re in.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;A vivid, cautionary tale&mdash;or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species.&rdquo; &mdash;Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling author of Changing Planes</div>

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Books By Jeanette Winterson (11 Books)

The Passion

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Weight

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Sexing the Cherry

Christmas Days

The Daylight Gate

Frankissstein

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Lighthousekeeping

The Stone Gods

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