Jeanette Winterson

In this original, deeply researched and lively new book, Jeanette Winterson traces the history of the AI revolution. She talks to some of the boldest and most imaginative thinkers in the field and looks to religion, myth and literature to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are just around the corner.

When we create non-human life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image?What do love, caring and attachment look like with a non-biological life form? And what happens to the gender binary?What will happen when our destiny is not contained by physical bodies, and our destination is not planet Earth?With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most urgent talking points, and asks readers to consider their role in imagining a more just and equal future.

The evil Magus wants Jack to transform the London of the 1600’s into a golden city, but Jack won’t do as he is told. He is soon involved in a nail-biting adventure as he battles to save London.

The tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a celebration of sharing and giving. What better way to do that than with a story. Read these stories by the fire, enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic. And for the icing on the Christmas cake, there are twelve festive recipes from Yuletides past and present.

In Brexit Britain, young transgender doctor, Ry, is falling in love with Victor Stein, a professor leading the public debate around artificial intelligence. In Phoenix, Arizona, a cryonics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically dead… but waiting to return to life. But the scene is set in 1816, when 19-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet?

Jeanette Winterson’s version of Shakespeare's 'The Winter’s Tale' vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found. X rated, contains offensive language.

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect. To live amongst us. To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.

CONTENT WARNING: contains scenes of a sexual nature

Time is going wrong - moving too fast or too slowly - and the world is in trouble. Silver needs to trace the timekeeper of legend. When Regalia and Abel join the search Silver realises that she is up against two nasty adversaries, as well as time itself, in the race to save the world.

Jeanette Winterson, award winning author of 'Oranges are not the only Fruit' (2048), tells of how the painful past she thought she had written over returned to haunt her later life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, as she searched for her birth mother.

Good Friday 1612. In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter makes his way from France to a place he believes will offer him sanctuary. But how safe can anyone be in Witch Country?