Possession

Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to...

The children's book —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

Possession : a romance —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The novel traces a pair of young academics, Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, as they uncover a clandestine love affair between two long-dead Victorian poets. Interwoven in a mesmerizing pastiche are love letters and fair...

Peacock & vine : Fortuny and Morris in life and at work —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- author.

Born a generation apart, they were apparent opposites: Fortuny a Spanish aristocrat, thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos; Morris the British bourgeois, in thrall to the myths of the North. Yet both me...

The biographer's tale —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The Djinn in the nightingale's eye : five fairy stories —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

A whistling woman —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

While standing on its own as a novel, this is the conclusion of the "Frederica Quartet" that began with "Virgin in the garden", "Still life" and "Babel Tower". While Frederica works in London, events in Yorkshire will th...

The children's book —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

"When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds m...

Little black book of stories —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

A collection of five short stories.

Yin zhi shu Vernacular Title: 隐之书 —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

Babel Tower —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The Oxford book of English short stories

Ragnarök : the end of the gods —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

Elementals : stories of fire and ice —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The virgin in the garden —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The children's book —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

Olive Wellwood, a famous writer, writes for each of her children a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a story-book worl...

Still life —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

Stephanie Potter gives up a promising academic career to marry Daniel Orton, while her sister, Frederica, enters Cambridge, and her brother, Marcus, begins recovering from a nervous breakdown. Byatt illuminates the confl...

The Matisse stories —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The biographer's tale —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

The story of a disenchanted postgraduate student who decides to study "the messiness of real life" by writing a biography of a great biographer. Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: disconnected type-scripts,...

The djinn in the nightingale's eye five fairy stories —Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-

A djinn is trapped in a bottle made of glass known as "nightingale's eye", until the day an English woman frees him, unleashing his strength and discovering her own. This story forms the centrepiece to a collection of fa...