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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Myths)

Grove Press

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Booker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology.

Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so AS Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory. As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods - a book of ancient Norse myths - and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.

War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that AS Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark.
Possession

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National Bestseller
 
Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. 

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.
"Literary critics make natural detectives," says Maud Bailey, heroine of a mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters, and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud discovers a love affair between the two Victorian writers the pair has dedicated their lives to studying: Randolph Ash, a literary great long assumed to be a devoted and faithful husband, and Christabel La Motte, a lesser-known "fairy poetess" and chaste spinster. At first, Roland and Maud's discovery threatens only to alter the direction of their research, but as they unearth the truth about the long-forgotten romance, their involvement becomes increasingly urgent and personal. Desperately concealing their purpose from competing researchers, they embark on a journey that pulls each of them from solitude and loneliness, challenges the most basic assumptions they hold about themselves, and uncovers their unique entitlement to the secret of Ash and La Motte's passion.

Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize--the U.K.'s highest literary award--Possession is a gripping and compulsively readable novel. A.S. Byatt exquisitely renders a setting rich in detail and texture. Her lush imagery weaves together the dual worlds that appear throughout the novel--the worlds of the mind and the senses, of male and female, of darkness and light, of truth and imagination--into an enchanted and unforgettable tale of love and intrigue. --Lisa Whipple

The Children's Book

Vintage

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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 breathtaking backdrop of the cliff-lined shores of England to Paris, Munich, and the trenches of the Somme, as the Edwardian period dissolves into World War I and Europe’s golden era comes to an end.
 

eFiction Magazine December 2011

eFiction Publishing

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Cheaters Never Prosper by SM Rosenberg
Ladybug Kingdom by Leila Gaskin
Object Permanence by Marcin Wrona
Garbage Man by Richard S. Freeland
The Knight’s Defence by Adam Byatt
Take the ‘A’ Train by Edward Raso
Cheaters Never Prosper by SM Rosenberg
Ladybug Kingdom by Leila Gaskin
Object Permanence by Marcin Wrona
Garbage Man by Richard S. Freeland
The Knight’s Defence by Adam Byatt
Take the ‘A’ Train by Edward Raso
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Vintage

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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 Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor.

"A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous."
--Boston Globe

"Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely."
--Chicago Tribune

"Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales."
--Washington Post Book World
"Once upon a time," A.S. Byatt's title fairy story begins, "when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins ... there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy. Her business was storytelling..." But this is no backward looking, quaint fairy time. The time is the present, and the protagonist is a sensible scholar who is given the not-at-all sensible gift of a genie. How will Gillian, an expert in fairy stories and well versed in all that can go wrong with wishes, use hers?

Distinguished British author and Booker Prize-winner A.S. Byatt creates fairy tales for adults, each a blend of the magical and the modern, and readers of Angels & Insects and Possession will recognize the role of Victorian fairy tales in her fiction. This handsome little book includes reproductions of woodcuts that evoke our childhood wonder for dragons and princesses, glass coffins and netherworldly things.

Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)

Modern Library, New York

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The Children's Book by AS Byatt - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk, UK - May 09, 2009
The Children's Book by AS Byatt - guardian.co.uk guardian.co.ukThe Children's Book by AS Byattby AS Byatt For Philip Warren, the boy whose discovery in the store-rooms of the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) opens the book, survival is a matter of making good his escape from life in the Potteries and finding, somehow, a way of unravelling AS Byatt serves an Edwardian saga in The Children's Book

To complement our review of AS Byatt's new novel, The Children's ... - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 14, 2009
To complement our review of AS Byatt's new novel, The Children's We hear that Ash is known for his “ventriloquism” and “unwieldy range”; and in Possession AS Byatt sets out to match him. There are forty pages of correspondence between Ash and LaMotte, long extracts from their poetry and from the journals of Miss

The Children's Book by AS Byatt (Harper, £18.99). - Coventry Telegraph
Coventry Telegraph, UK - May 19, 2009
The Children's Book by AS Byatt (Harper, £18.99).BOOKER Prize-winning author AS Byatt beguiles and amazes with this rich saga of childhood at the end of the Victorian era. Children's author Olive Wellwood hosts a Midsummer Ball for the children of three families, who are full of innocence and

A naturally gloomy nature - Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail, Canada - May 11, 2009
A naturally gloomy nature - Globe and Mail Globe and MailA naturally gloomy natureHard to believe, but AS Byatt's Possession: A Romance was published almost 20 years ago. And 20 years on, that fat novel – “a delicious fruitcake fiction” that pushed Dame Antonia Susan onto the international bestseller lists and won her the Booker

IASB sticks with original pension accounting draft date - Pensions & Investments
Pensions & Investments, IL - May 21, 2009
IASB sticks with original pension accounting draft dateBy Barry B. Burr The IASB reverted back to its original fourth-quarter 2009 time frame for publishing its exposure draft on pension accounting, said Mark Byatt, director of corporate communications. The International Accounting Standards Board had Investor Reps to Join IASB