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The Powerbook
  • Published: 6 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099598299
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $30.00

The Powerbook

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The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES

'Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts' Ali Smith, Scotsman

'It's night. I'm sitting at my screen. There's an e-mail for me. I unwrap it. It says - Freedom, just for one night.'
Ali, or Alix, is an e-writer. They will write anything you like, but on one condition: that you are prepared to enter your story. Finally, you can be the hero of your own life.
But, there is a price to pay - the risk that you might leave the story as somebody else.

'Brilliant, evocative writing... Winterson never seems to put a foot wrong... It is funny, clever, entertaining and wholly delightful' Spectator
  • Published: 6 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780099598299
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out.

Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

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Night Side of the River
12 Bytes
The Gap of Time
The Daylight Gate
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Praise for The Powerbook

Gorgeously written, shockingly moving...a wonderful, unforgettable read. Buy it for someone you really love

Simon Schama, Mail on Sunday

Winterson writes with evangelical assurance, vaulting ambition, total control...witty, original, and good at what she does

Observer

Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts

Ali Smith, Scotsman

Mischievous and intelligent, determined to provoke thoughts about love's reason, and its risk

The Times

Brilliant, evocative writing... Winterson never seems to put a foot wrong... It is funny, clever, entertaining and wholly delightful

Spectator

Gorgeously written, shockingly moving...a wonderful, unforgettable read. Buy it for someone you really love

Simon Schama, Mail on Sunday

Winterson writes with evangelical assurance, vaulting ambition, total control...witty, original, and good at what she does

Observer

Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts

Ali Smith, Scotsman

Mischievous and intelligent, determined to provoke thoughts about love's reason, and its risk

The Times

Brilliant, evocative writing... Winterson never seems to put a foot wrong... It is funny, clever, entertaining and wholly delightful

Spectator