Antonia Susan Byatt's Books

Anna Severell, seventeen, struggles to escape the shadow of her famous novelist father, Henry Severell, and achieve the same kind of personal success he has enjoyed.

A tale spanning the end of the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway and exposing the boy to dark truths about her family's summer bacchanals at their rambling country house.

Anna Severell, seventeen, struggles to escape the shadow of her famous novelist father, Henry Severell, and achieve the same kind of personal success he has enjoyed.

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 seperately. Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings. The title story, 'The Djinn and the Nightingale's Eye', a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women's lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself.

This boxed set features four Frederica titles by A.S. Byatt, including The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman.

In her powerful opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors' - A. S. Byatt considers the renaissance of the historical novel and discusses particularly the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts that British writers have invented; and the new 'Darwinian novel'. These afford new readings of writers from Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green to Anthony Burgess, William Golding and Muriel Spark, and other contemporary authors, including Penelope Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis and Pat Barker. She also offers fascinating insight into her own translation of historical fact into fiction in the two novellas which make up Angels and Insects.

Stories explore the theme of opposites in the tales of a woman who feels the need to flee after witnessing her husband's death and that of a princess from a cold climate who marries a prince from a desert kingdom.

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 young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods - a book of ancient Norse myths - and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. How could this child know that fifty years on many of the birds and flowers she took for granted on her walks to school would become extinct? War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that A.S. Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark work of fiction from one of the world's truly great writers.

Cassandra is an Oxford don; Julia, her sister, a bestselling novelist. They share a set of disturbing memories of a strange childhood game and of Simon, the handsome young neighbour who loved them both. Years later Simon re-enters their lives via a television programme on snakes and intrudes into their uneasy compromise of mutual antagonism and distrust. The old, wild emotions surge back, demanding and urgent, and this time the game is played out to a fatal finsih. Rich in ideas, subtle and exhilarating, "The Game" is a superb novel.

/BYATT A.S. The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession presents a stunning, contemporary story set against the clashing politics, passionate ideals, and shifting sexual roles of the early 1960s. In Byatt's vision, the presiding genius of the day seems to be a blend of the Marquis de Sade and The Hobbit. Peopled with weird and colorful characters, charted with brilliant, imaginative sympathy, Babel Tower is as comic as it is threatening and bizarre. 100,00

Short stories. By the author of P̀ossession', winner of the 1990 Booker Prize.

Against the background of major changes, in society, politics, education and literature the author charts the personal lives of Wordsworth and Coleridge and traces the growth of their ideas.

A young academic couple's attempt to trace the relationship between two turbulent, romantic, and superstitious Victorian poets reveals uncanny parallels with their own lives and culminates in the exhumation of a poet's corpse.

Book's by Antonia Susan Byatt

The Shadow of the Sun

The Shadow of the Sun

The Children's Book

The Children's Book

The Shadow of the Sun

The Shadow of the Sun

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

The Quartet Boxed Set

The Quartet Boxed Set

On Histories and Stories

On Histories and Stories

Elementals

Elementals

Ragnarok

Ragnarok

The Game

The Game

Babel Tower

Babel Tower

Angels and Insects

Angels and Insects

Unruly Times

Unruly Times

Possession

Possession

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