On Our Shelves

From the publisher:

A beautiful edition of Angela Carter’s previously uncollected poetry

From the publisher:

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter’s witty and bawdy ...

From the publisher:

Angela Carter’s pick of Mother Goose’s feathers. ‘Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories’ Observer

From the publisher:

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and other Professors. Outside, where land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live ...

From the publisher:

A title that is written by an author whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between.

From the publisher:

Angela Carter’s highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women’s sexual freedom

From the publisher:

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe’s capitals, part swan ...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire ...

From the publisher:

*This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. With a new introduction by Ali Smith

Rosemary Hill writes:

Angela Carter didn’t enjoy much of what she called ‘the pleasantest but most evanescent kind of fame, which is that during your own lifetime’. She was known and ...

From the publisher:

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter’s brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature ...

From the publisher:

• Full of the wit and irreverence for which Carter is renowned

From the publisher:

Based on real people, this volume offers a collection of stories focusing on mingling history, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy.

From the publisher:

Presenting a selection of her writing, the author covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a measure of the focus of her ...

From the publisher:

Features fairy tales that conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. This book includes: “Bluebeard”, ...

From the publisher:

In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition, fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. This ...

From the publisher:

As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were ...

From the publisher:

THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called ‘The boldest of English writers’.

From the publisher:

Charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost ...