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12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. In this original, deeply researched and lively new book, Jeanette Winterson tr ...Show more
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2017 "Nowhere is Winterson's] faith in the transporting power of storytelling more on display than in her new book, Christmas Days . . . dark, otherworldly and (trademark Winterson) wickedly funny . . . a] holiday treasure . . . to be pulled out on a ...Show more
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve ...Show more
Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor ...Show more
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario. By the time the pair land in New York, Alice has become Jove's mistress, an affair of the heart which is ...Show more
Hansel & Greta (A Fairytale Revolution) by Jeanette Winterson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: A Fairy Tale Revolution
Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant ...Show more
Midsummer Nights by Jeanette Winterson
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 2009, the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera reaches its 75th year. In commemoration of this event, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. A foreword from Ralph Fiennes and an introduction by Jea ...Show more
Night Side of the River (Short Stories) by Jeanette Winterson
$37.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
A modern and masterful collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'A master of her material' VANITY FAIR 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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 l ...Show more
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
An action-packed, exciting novel about time travel, prophecies, hypnosis, a black hole, an evil rabbit - and a girl, a boy and a house who prove that no matter how insurmountable the problem may appear, there is always something that can be done to make a difference.A little way in the future, time is d ...Show more
The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Can a man be maimed by witchcraft? Can a severed head speak? Based on the most notorious of English witch-trials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder. It is set in a time when politics and religion were closely intertwined; when, following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, ev ...Show more