“a s byatt”

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize and the 1990 Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize -- soon to be a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle and Trevor Eves, and directed by Neil LaBute. Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as " a gifted observer,... More

An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.... More

The novel draws on the anguished childhoodof the author who had to battle between what she had to do as her duty and whatshe wanted to do as her 'pleasure' -- which was to be herself. The scenariorevolves around the stormy relationship between Maggie and Tom Tulliver. Withthe fall in Tulliver's fort... More

Expertly navigating between the real and the fantastical, A. S. Byatt offers a magnificent new collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites -- passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice -- clash and converge.A beautiful ice maiden risks her life when she falls in ... More

From the award-winning author of "Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact. Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory an... More

In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing and remembering, gifted novelist and critic Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time.As writers of English from Australia to India to Sri La... More