Byatt, A S – The Bell Bookshop

Djinn In the Nightingales Eye

Emma — Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:00:00 +0000

**FEATURING THE STORY THAT INSPIRED NEW FILM THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING**

A S Byatt’s fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. Innumerable readers have asked for the two marvellous fairy tales in POSSESSION – ‘The Glass Coffin’ and ‘Gode’s Tale’ of the Breton Naie des Trepasses – to be published separately.

Here they take their place with three other stories with medieval and middle eastern settings. The title story, ‘The Djinn and the Nightingale’s Eye’, a long story about an Englishwoman in Turkey who unwittingly releases a genie from his bottle, is a reflection on women’s lives, on magic and on the power of storytelling itself, and has inspired the new film Three Thousand Years of Longing starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

Frederica Quartet Virgin In The Garden

Emma — Thu, 01 Dec 1994 00:00:00 +0000

In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.

THE FIRST FREDERICA POTTER NOVEL

Possession

Emma — Thu, 07 Feb 1991 00:00:00 +0000

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE