A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

Books by A S Byatt

The Game

A S Byatt

Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover. The bond between two sisters becomes strained when a mutual love from their past comes back into their lives

The Shadow of the Sun

A S Byatt

Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, A.S. Byatt’s debut novel – the moving story of a young woman’s struggle for independence and identity

Possession

A S Byatt

Winner of the Booker Prize

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