In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival.This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mothe...

In 'Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?' geeft Jeanette Winterson zich voor het eerst helemaal bloot. In dit boek beschrijft ze haar vroegste jeugd, de problematische relatie met haar adoptiemoeder, de breuk met haar adoptieouders en de zoektocht naar haar echte moeder. Openhartig, pijnlijk eerlijk en rauw: 'Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?' geeft een heel nieuw inzicht in de ontwikkeling van het schrijverschap van de auteur van o.a. 'Kersen kruisen' en 'De passie'.

Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time. As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage. 'Entrancing...fabulous...

Door de ogen van Aladdin vraagt Jeanette Winterson ons anders te kijken. Een weeskind, straatschoffie, en nietsnut, maar hij was de meester over zijn eigen verhaal. Jeanette Winterson is geadopteerd, groeide op in de arbeidersklasse,

en was dus voorbestemd voor de fabriek. Maar zo hóéft het niet te lopen. De bibliotheek waar ze alles verslond en Sjahrazaad uit Duizend-en-één nacht leerden haar een belangrijke les: het leven is vaak een wrede teleurstelling,

maar dat is niet het enige verh...

A secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands.

'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' GuardianHenri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken.

With wit and verve, the prize-winning author of Sexing the Cherry and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 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. Finally in paperback, Weight is a da...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tende...

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a warm, witty and daring novel that gives voice to irrepressible desire. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.