Jeanette Winterson

An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit I can change the story because I am the story. 'Makes you think and makes you laugh' Nigella With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of One Thousand and One Nights to show how its questions are still relevant to our lives today. Is love the most important thing in the world? What makes us happy? In her guise as Aladdin, Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realised through the power of books that she could read herself as fiction as well as fact. Weaving together fiction, magic and memoir, this remarkable book is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future – an invitation to look more closely at our own stories, and to imagine the world anew. 'Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp' Kamila Shamsie 'One of the most gifted writers working today' New York Times In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard

NEZAKONNOE POTREBLENIE NARKOTICHESKIKh SREDSTV, PSIKHOTROPNYKh VESCHESTV, IKh ANALOGOV PRICHINJAET VRED ZDOROVJu, IKh NEZAKONNYJ OBOROT ZAPRESCHEN I VLECHET USTANOVLENNUJu ZAKONODATELSTVOM OTVETSTVENNOST. U tekh, kto ushel na druguju storonu reki, est odno vazhnoe preimuschestvo pered zhivymi - oni ne bojatsja smerti. No tochno tak zhe, kak my, strashatsja poterjat ljubov, druzhbu, avtoritet... i pytajutsja probitsja skvoz zavesu vremeni, skvoz potok, razdeljajuschij tot mir i etot...Chtoby provesti s toboj esche odin den. Napomnit. Soblaznit. Otomstit...Tainstvennye istorii o prizrakakh i o ljubvi, istorii vymyshlennye i realnye - ot odnoj iz samykh interesnykh pisatelnits sovremennosti.

"Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides."--Vanity FairI can change the story because I am the story."One of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle) weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of readingA woman is filibustering for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal new questions and answers we are still thinking about today. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy?In her guise as Aladdin--the orphan who changes his world--Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know. To look again. Especially to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realizes through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: "I can change the story because I am the story."An alluring blend of the ancient and the contemporary, One Aladdin Two Lamps ingeniously explores stories and their vital role in our lives. Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, Winterson's newest is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future--an invitation to look closer at our stories, and thereby ourselves, to imagine the world anew.

Every night, a woman tells a story to save her life. Every morning, she lives one more day.The story of Shahrazad and the Sultan goes like this: for one thousand and one nights, with her execution looming, Shahrazad tells a story. Against his wishes, the Sultan is entranced, and delays her punishment so that she can finish it. And so the cycle continues, until storytelling has saved Shahrazad's life.With her signature wit and wisdom, Jeanette Winterson opens the stories of the Arabian Nights and asks us to look again at what we think we know, and how these ancient stories reveal essential questions about our modern world. Who should we trust? Is love the most important aspect of life? What makes us happy? And most importantly, can we change the ending to our own story?As a child and a young woman, covert visits to the library turned Jeanette Winterson into a reader and expanded the possibilities for her future. Her life transformed from fact to fiction and gave her the courage to alter the endings she did not want to happen. The defiant response of Shahrazad: I can change the story because I am the story.A celebration of the value of literature in our contemporary world and a delightful recounting of some of our oldest stories: Jeanette Winterson shows us how storytelling can change all of our lives as we know them.

"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her."--O, the Oprah MagazineThe 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of autofiction--a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl's quirky passage into adulthoodWith a new introduction and afterword by the authorJeanette Winterson's extraordinary career began at the age of twenty-five with the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. An international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Whitbread Award for Best First Fiction, it is considered a classic of contemporary literature and taught widely around the world, in courses ranging from core undergraduate classes to women's studies and queer studies.Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanette's insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind--and on reporting them with wit and passion--makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood.

"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her."--O, the Oprah MagazineThe 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of autofiction--a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl's quirky passage into adulthoodWith a new introduction and afterword by the authorJeanette Winterson's extraordinary career began at the age of twenty-five with the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. An international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Whitbread Award for Best First Fiction, it is considered a classic of contemporary literature and taught widely around the world, in courses ranging from core undergraduate classes to women's studies and queer studies.Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanette's insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind--and on reporting them with wit and passion--makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood.

A beautiful hardback edition of Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel: a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.‘I love her.’‘Then you do not love the Lord.’‘Yes, I love both of them.’‘You cannot.’'I do.''This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called that passion Unnatural?Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of autofiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit goes beyond facts into the deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.'Witty... extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening StandardVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful

Jeanette on terane ja mässumeelne orb, kes kasvab üles Põhja-Inglismaa tööstuspiirkonnas sügavalt usklikus perekonnas. Koolis tikib ta süngeid religioosseid motosid, nädalavahetusel helistab Issanda kiituseks tamburiini ja pöörab möödakäijaid usku. Väikese Jeanette'i elu on läbi põimunud ema kummalistest vaadetest elule ja raamatutele, ja nii kasvab ka temast väga omapärane tütarlaps.Kui Jeanette teismeikka jõuab, esimest korda armub ja oma seksuaalsust avastab, laguneb tasakaal jumalakartlikus kodus kiiresti. Jeanette'i meelekindlus oma südame hääle kuulamisel ja maailmale kuulutamisel teeb sellest unustamatu, liigutava ning ainukordse suureks kasvamise loo.Jeanette Winterson lapsendati nelipühilaste perekonda, kus temast kasvatati misjonäri. Kui Winterson pandi valiku ette, kas jätta maha kodu või tüdruk, kellesse ta armunud oli, valis ta armastuse ja elas 16-aastaselt seal, kus juhtus, mõnda aega ka oma väikeses Minis. Ta lõpetas Oxfordi ülikooli ja käesolev debüütromaan "Apelsinid pole ainsad viljad" ilmus, kui ta oli 25-aastane (1985). 1990. aastal valmis romaanist ka samanimeline auhinnatud lühisari. Nüüdseks on Jeanette Wintersoni sulest ilmunud 13 romaani, mitu novellikogu, lasteraamatuid ja elulugu "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" Ta on Manchesteri ülikoolis loovkirjutamise professor ja usub, et kunst kuulub kõigile.

The dazzling and genre-bending new collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestseller Jeanette Winterson‘Spine-chillingly good’ iNEWS‘Winterson the artist at her most potent’ GUARDIANOur lives are now digital, exposed and always-on. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They’ve simply adapted and innovated. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect… To live amongst us. To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead – of those we’ve lost, loved, forgotten…and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.‘Engrossing… A must-read’ ELLE‘Playful and poignant’ OBSERVER‘Captivating and chilling’ DAILY EXPRESS

A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village s ance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.

Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.‘I love her.’‘Then you do not love the Lord.’‘Yes, I love both of them.’‘You cannot.’'I do.''This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman almost as much as she loves the Lord. How on Earth could her Church called that passion Unnatural?Both a groundbreaking coming-of-age novel and a pioneering work of autofiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit goes beyond facts into the deepest truths. Searing and tender, playful and provocative, it is a portrait of the artist as a young evangelist, re-writing her own Bible.'Witty... extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup

Detstvo i junost zhivoj i smyshlenoj Dzhenet prokhodjat v atmosfere beskonechnykh propovedej, religioznykh prazdnikov i dushespasitelnykh besed. Devochka s uvlecheniem prinimaet uchastie v missionerskoj dejatelnosti obschiny, odnako nevolno otmechaet, chto ee "dobrodetelnye" roditeli i sosedi vesma svoeobrazno traktujut uchenie Khrista. S kazhdym dnem ej vse trudnee miritsja s litsemeriem i khanzhestvom, protsvetajuschimi v ee okruzhenii. No odnazhdy prikhodit ljubov... i razrushaet vse, chem ona zhila do sikh por, - semju, kareru, veru v Boga i veru v ljudej. No rushatsja takzhe i steny ee kroshechnogo soobschestva, za kotorymi otkryvaetsja bolshoj, zhivoj nastojaschij mir...

Ves mir pogruzilsja vo mrak dlja malenkoj Silver, kogda ee mat tragicheski pogibla, sorvavshis so skaly. Na prizyv gorodskoj obschiny prijutit osirotevshuju devochku otkliknulsja lish staryj smotritel majaka Pju - slepoj, kak i ego tezka-pirat iz "Ostrova sokrovisch".I teper Silver zhivet u slepogo Pju, v tesnom domishke na vershine skaly. S nastupleniem temnoty starik zazhigaet majak, chtoby uberech morjakov ot bedy, i rasskazyvaet malyshke sovsem ne detskie istorii - o strasti i predatelstve, o gordyne i smerti, o zabludshikh dushakh i zabludivshikhsja morjakakh, i, konechno zhe, o ljubvi - istseljajuschej i okryljajuschej, - prokladyvaja v ee dushe tropinku k svetu.

A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village s ance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.

A masterful and modern collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'The best living writer in this language' Evening Standard'Always passionate and provocative' New Statesman'A master of her material' Vanity FairOur lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.To live amongst us.To remind us.To tempt us.To take their revenge.These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson'Winterson the artist at her most potent' GUARDIAN'Thought-provoking' DAILY MIRROR'Spine-chillingly good' IOur lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.To live amongst us.To remind us.To tempt us.To take their revenge.These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' ObserverHow is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new chapter, this is the eye-opening new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson.Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about AI, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points - from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections between humans and non-human helpers to whether it's time to leave planet Earth.'Very funny... A kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories' Spectator'Refreshingly optimistic' GuardianA 'Books of 2021' Pick in the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard

" A] jewel box of a book." --KirkusGreta 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 trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favors luxury and living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard and so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids deep in the woods. With her trademark subversive and comic eye, Jeanette Winterson retells the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel.