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Jeanette Winterson, Toronto, April 1990 BRITISH WRITER JEANETTE WINTERSON OBE HAD BEEN BUOYED ALONG BY SEVERAL LITERARY PRIZES by the time I photographed her in the back of a rock club on Queen street at the beginning of the '90s. I had not read any of her books at the time, but she had a stellar reputation; I still can't remember why I shot her here, and not in the usual spot for author portraits - a room in a good hotel, or an empty boardroom at the offices of her publisher. According to…

"One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find. - Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods

Novelist SJ Sindu tells how Jeanette Winterson's work pulled her outside of her skin and allowed her to see a future in which she was happy.

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Author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit to shut deli in Spitafields after rateable value rises from £21,500 to £54,000

'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise's husband, Elgin, blocking love's course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made. With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and…

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The novelist’s recasting of Shakespeare is respectful of the original while injecting it with contemporary grit and characteristic wit and poetry

The author is a long-time wine lover. Here, she shares her cellar secrets and reflects on how Britain finally succumbed to the grape

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Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

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Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavi