From the booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes this richly imaginitive story 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 [...]

Here are forty stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by Maria Tatar. Even after two hundred years, their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. Tatar's preface provides readers with the co[...]

The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.[...]

In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in "Possession" the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ir[...]

In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's [...]

Like Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Isak Dinesen and Angela Carter, A. S. Byatt knows that fairy tales are for grownups. And in this ravishing collection she breathes new life into the form.
Little Black Book of Stories offers shivers along with magical thrills. Leaves rustle un[...]

Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobigraphical and linguistically stunning, th[...]

Sør-England på slutten av 1800-tallet. Familien Wellwood bor med sine mange barn i det store gamle gårdshuset Todefright. Moren Olive er barnebokforfatter som skriver fantasifulle fortellinger i tråd med tidens trend. Hun er familiens store kreative sentrum, samt forsørger, mens ektemannen Hump[...]

En ny litterär tidskrift tar plats i läsfåtöljen och kulturdebatten.

I svenska Grantas första nummer medverkar bland andra A.S. Byatt, Junot Díaz, Peter Fröberg Idling, Karin Johannisson, Haruki Murakami, Julie Otsuka, Lena Sundström, Amanda Svensson och Jerker Virdborg. Texterna [...]

A. S. Byatt tulkitsee romaanissaan skandinaavisia jumalmyyttejä vaikuttavasti saaden lukijan pohtimaan, onko Ragnarök, viimeinen taistelu, jo lähellä.Toisen maailmansodan aikana pieni tyttö on evakossa Englannin maaseudulla. Hän löytää kirjan, joka sisältää skandinaavisen mytologian juma[...]

A.S. Byattin mestarillinen uusi romaani on nimensä mukaisesti lasten kirja: se kertoo tarinan lapsista, jotka kasvavat nuoriksi ja aikuisiksi edellisen vuosisadan vaihteen kuohuvassa Euroopassa suuren sodan kynnyksellä. "Englannin puutarhasta" matkustetaan eri puolille Eurooppaa, ja lukijan eteen [...]