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  • Possession

    A Romance

    by A S Byatt ...
    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 tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Bell

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. S. BYATTDora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns. Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess, Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility. But then the lost Abbey bell, legendary symbol of religion ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Children's Book

    by A. S. Byatt ...
    From the renowned author of Possession, The Children’s Bookistheabsorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with the cataclysmic destruction of World War I. In this compelling novel, A.S. Byatt summons up a whole era, revealing that beneath its golden surface lay tensions that would explode into war, revolution and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Grimm Reader

    The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm

    Edited by Maria Tatar ...
    Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore.Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. With some of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Djinn In The Nightingale's Eye

    Five Fairy Stories

    by A S Byatt ...
    **FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**A S Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION - 'The Glass Coffin' and 'Gode's Tale' of the Breton Naie des Trepasses - to be published separately.Here they take their place with three other stories with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Angels And Insects

    by A S Byatt ...
    Like A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals – some fictional, others drawn from history – gather to connect with the spirit world. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Shadow of the Sun

    A Novel

    by A S Byatt ...
    It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her future. As autumn begins and Anna enters university, the pair grow closer. A single mistake, however, could put her newfound ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Still Life

    by A S Byatt ...
    Series series The Frederica Potter Novels
    Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom and frustrations of motherhood. Meanwhile, their younger brother Marcus begins to recover from a nervous breakdown. Each sibling is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Cold

    The perfect Christmas gift with an afterword by R.F. Kuang

    by A S Byatt ...
    A tale of mythic beauty, elemental passion and hope from one of our greatest storytellers, with an afterword by R.F. Kuang.'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 I want.'A princess is born in summer. Frail from infancy, she ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Virgin in the Garden

    by A S Byatt ...
    Series series The Frederica Potter Novels
    In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ragnarok

    The End of the Gods

    by A. S. Byatt ...
    Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory.As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Little Black Book of Stories

    by A S Byatt ...
    A new collection of stories from A. S. Byatt is always a winner, and this one takes an unexpected turn, bringing shivers as well as delights. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their fears and memories and the strange thing they saw in their childhood - or thought they saw - so long ago. A distinguished ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD