A S Byatt

Possession is 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 tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS - Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the Booker Prize-winning novel. A romance, a literary quest, a modern classic. A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle...

A luminous single-volume selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt. Medusa’s Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp...

From the Booker prizewinning author of Possession, a beautifully packaged hardback novella, telling a tale of elemental passion and hope. 'The snow did not numb Fiammarosa; it pricked and hummed and brought her, intensely, to life . . . This is who I am, the cold princess thought to herself, wriggling for sheer pleasure in the snow-dust, this is what...