Daily Archives: February 18, 2010

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My Favourite Jeanette Winterson Book 2 – The Powerbook

 
Author:  Jeanette Winterson

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Vintage; New Ed edition (3 May 2001)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0099285436

ISBN-13: 978-0099285434

Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm 

Product Description

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run. “The PowerBook” is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price. Ali discovers that she too will have to pay it. Death can take the body but not the heart. Set in London, Paris, Capri and Cyberspace, this is a book that reinvents itself as it travels. Using cover-versions, fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, “The PowerBook” works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.

About the Author

Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children’s books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d’argent at Cannes Film Festival.
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My Favourite Jeanette Winterson Book 1 – Battle of the Sun

 
Author: Jeanette Winterson

Hardcover: 400 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2 Nov 2009)

Language English

ISBN-10: 140880042X

ISBN-13: 978-1408800423

Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.2 x 3 cm 

Product Description

Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn’t the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London.

About the Author

Jeanette Winterson’s first novel for children, Tanglewreck, was widely admired. Here in her second, readers will once more relish her free-spirited literary inventiveness and style. Jeanette won the Whitbread for her first book, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. She lives in Oxfordshire and travels extensively lecturing about her work.
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My Book Recommendation Gypsy Boy

 
Author: Mikey Walsh

Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (4 Feb 2010)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0340977981

ISBN-13: 978-0340977989

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm

Product Description

Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back.This is something Mikey knows only too well.

Growing up, he rarely went to school, and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies. The caravan and camp were his world.

But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture his family’s legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of grief and abuse.Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision – to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere he could truly belong.

About the Author

Five years ago Mikey Walsh finally succumbed to staying put.
London called him and it is the longest time he has ever lived in one place. He works at a nearby primary school, where he teaches art and drama, and also picks up the formal education he missed out on as a child. Mikey proposed to his partner on the number 38 bus two years ago and they married last summer.