Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: life
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0684835037
ISBN-13: 9780684835037

From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family--and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: "When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon".

Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage Books
Keywords: garden, virgin
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1992-01-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679738290
ISBN-13: 9780679738299

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.

Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: possession
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679735909
ISBN-13: 9780679735908

Actual Book Cover May Vary -- There are two covers available and orders are filled at random.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.

Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novellas, insects, amp, angels
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1994-03-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0679751343
ISBN-13: 9780679751342

The author of Possession returns to the territory of her bestselling novel in two breathtaking fictions that explore the social and psychic landscape of Victorian England. Set in a proper country house with undercurrents of brutality and at a seance where historical figures yearn for one another, these works remind us of Byatt’s powers.

Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: book, children
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0307272095
ISBN-13: 9780307272096

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.When Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum—a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive’s magical tales—she takes him into the storybook world

Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: eye, nightingale, djinn
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-27
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0679762221
ISBN-13: 9780679762225

The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable.The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byat

Author: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: international, vintage, book, children
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2010-08-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0307473066
ISBN-13: 9780307473066

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children’s book author Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house—and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. The Wellwoods’ personal struggles and hidden desires unravel against a bre