Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan) 1936-

Possession : a romance by A. S Byatt ( Book )
121 editions published between 1989 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 3,839 libraries worldwide
Winner of England's Booker Prize, a coast-to-coast bestseller, and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is a novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. Revolving around a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets, Byatt creates a haunting counterpoint of passion and ideas.

The children's book : a novel by A. S Byatt ( Book )
28 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 2,310 libraries worldwide
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces.

Babel Tower by A. S Byatt ( Book )
37 editions published between 1995 and 2004 in 7 languages and held by 2,161 libraries worldwide
In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child. A look at British society.

A whistling woman by A. S Byatt ( Book )
38 editions published between 2002 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 1,917 libraries worldwide
Amid the effervescence and turbulence of the 1960s, Frederica finds a career in television in London, while events in Yorkshire threaten to turn her life and the lives of the people she loves upside down.

Angels & insects : two novellas by A. S Byatt ( Book )
55 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in 8 languages and held by 1,869 libraries worldwide
These two fascinating novellas, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. "Morpho Eugenia" is a lively Gothic fable of the Earthly Paradise, of the Victorian obsession with Darwinian theories of breeding and sexuality and the parallels between insect and human society - the capture and taming of nature, whether it be a young woman in a country house or a rare butterfly, gleaming in the forests of the Amazon. "The Conjugial Angel" concerns Tennyson's In Memoriam, published in 1850, mourning the death seventeen years before of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who was engaged to Tennyson's sister Emily. A philosophical ghost story, bizarre, comic, and moving, in which fictive mediums meet "real" characters, it explores the contemporary preoccupation with God and life after death. Resonant, magical, entirely original, this is A. S. Bryant at her best.

The biographer's tale by A. S Byatt ( Book )
35 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,764 libraries worldwide
Phineas G. Nanson sets out to write a biography of a great biographer, only to discover that the fragmentary facts and bits of information are difficult to put together, a discovery that becomes a metaphor for his own complex life. .

The Matisse stories by A. S Byatt ( Book )
44 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 1,691 libraries worldwide
Three stories, each around a particular Matisse painting. In Medusa's Ankles, a hairdresser informs a customer he is considering leaving his wife because she has allowed her ankles to get fat. The novel describes the reaction of the customer, herself conscious of her waning looks.

Little black book of stories by A. S Byatt ( Book )
24 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,551 libraries worldwide
Blending elements of folk tales with the darker elements of everyday life, a collection of short fiction includes the story of two middle-aged women confronting their childhood fears and the tale of a man who encounters the ghost of his living wife.

Still life by A. S Byatt ( Book )
39 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 1,549 libraries worldwide
In the 1950s, Stephanie Potter, now married to a clergyman, is conflicted about her domestic life and her strivings for intellectual fulfillment; her brilliant sister Frederica eagerly embarks on her academic (and sexual) education at Cambridge University; and their troubled brother Marcus painfully tries to find friendship and love

The Oxford book of English short stories ( Book )
18 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in English and held by 1,521 libraries worldwide
A collection of less-known stories by well-known writers. In Thomas Hardy's A Mere Interlude, a bride on the eve of her wedding elopes with an old flame, while Graham Greene's The Destructors is on crime during the London Blitz.