Jeanette Winterson
Author
Description
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
After rendering the planet unlivable, humankind begins to colonize a new blue planet, and heroine Billie Crusoe embarks on a personal odyssey into the future, in a futuristic adventure that explores humankind's relationship to the environment, power, and technology and assesses what it is that makes us human.
Publisher
Royal Academy of Arts
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Committed to sculpture as 'a vital tool to create the future', Antony Gormley is best known for the 'Angel of the North', 'Another Place', and 'Field' -- the collectively generated work involving hundreds of makers and thousands of small clay figurines that have filled entire museums across the globe. The human body in relation to time and space is a key theme in his work, emerging out of his engagement with archaeology and Asian and Buddhist thought,...