STILL LIFE

Literature & Fiction

BYATT, A.S.

Contemporary

Collier Books

Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire -- from spiritualist sénces to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany. What emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passion and ideas.Performed by Virginia Leishman

Possession

Romance

HarperAudio

In the same delectable format as the matisse stories, this collection deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives a scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world; a schoolgirl draws a blood-filled picture of jael; a swimming pool reveals a beauteous monster in its depths the settings range from the heart of provence in summer to the cold forests of scandinavia, form chalk-strewn classrooms to herbscented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds

ELEMENTALS

Literary

Vintage

(Truth, lies, love, history, self-knowledge--Byatt enables the reader to choose their route through Phineas's Bildungsroman. Pitching headlong into a very topical British cultural obsession with the nature of biography, The Biographer's Tale walks lightly the knotty tightrope between fact and fiction, and leaves the reader to decide on what is the difference between the two. As Phineas discovers, There are very few human truths and infinite variations on them...Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, gut giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we discover. --Rachel Holmes)

The Biographer's Tale

Teen & Young Adult

Possession [POSSESSION] [Paperback]

Possession - A Romance

Vintage Books/Random House

This intoxicating novel stands on its own, while forming a triumphant conclusion to a s byatts great quartet depicting the clashing forces in english life from the early 1950s to 1970 while frederica falls almost by accident into a career in television in london, tumultuous events in her home county of yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves a whistling woman is the ultimate novel of ideas made flesh - gloriously sensual, sexy and scary, bursting with ideas, and wonderful humanity

A Whistling Woman (The Frederica Potter Novels)

VINTAGE (RAND)

A packed, provocative anthology on a subject close to us all. You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all. . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. Luis Bunuel, Memoirs “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,” the Queen remarked. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass This intriguing anthology introduces us to arguments and experiences, evocative moments and hard scientific debate on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives and our history together. With an introduction by A.S. Byatt, the book is arranged in themed sections, and includes specially commissioned essays by writers with expertise in different fields from Memory and Evolution by Patrick Bateson to Memory and Forgetting by the biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the brain, by Steven Rose. The fascinating extracts move through the ages of Plato and Aristotle to Montaigne and Shakespeare, Voltaire and Hume, Wordsworth and Proust, Freud and Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, W.G. Sebald and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating and provocative and often profoundly moving, Memory is a book to treasure — and remember.

Memory

Wood, Harriet Harvey

Science & Math

Vintage Books

The Virgin In The Garden (The Frederica Potter Novels)

Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn't long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister Stephanie abandons academia and is confronted with the boredom and frustrations of motherhood. Meanwhile, their younger brother Marcus begins to recover from a nervous breakdown. Each sibling is desperate to shape their own future, but a horrifying event will soon change their lives forever.

Still Life (The Frederica Potter Novels)

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STILL LIFE

Possession

ELEMENTALS

The Biographer's Tale

Possession

Possession - A Romance

A Whistling Woman (The Frederica Potter Novels)

Memory

The Virgin In The Garden (The Frederica Potter Novels)

Still Life (The Frederica Potter Novels)