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Marina Warner Books In Order

Impossible Books In Order

  1. The Impossible Day (1981)
  2. The Impossible Night (1981)
  3. The Impossible Bath (1982)
  4. The Impossible Rocket (1982)

Novels

  1. In a Dark Wood (1977)
  2. The Skating Party (1982)
  3. The Wobbly Tooth (1984)
  4. The Lost Father (1988)
  5. Indigo (1992)
  6. The Leto Bundle (2001)

Collections

  1. The Mermaids in the Baseme*nt (1993)
  2. Murderers I Have Known (2002)
  3. Fly Away Home (2015)
  4. Kiss and Part (2019)

Chapbooks

  1. In the House of Crossed Desires (1998)
  2. Figuring the Soul (1999)

Anthologies edited

  1. Wonder Tales (1994)

Non fiction

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Marina Warner Books Overview

The Lost Father

Shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize and winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award, this novel tells the story of a family and is set in the south of the Italian peninsula, during the early part of this century. The author’s other work includes ‘Monuments and Maidens’ and ‘The Skating Party’.

Indigo

Two young women brash and confident Xanthe and self conscious and uneasy Miranda return to the island of Enfant Be a7ate, where their ancestor landed three hundred years before, to find fortune and adventure.

The Leto Bundle

A sensual, compelling new novel inspired by dramatic chronicles, contemporary events, and the tragic figure of a woman goddess in permanent exileRoom XIX of the Museum of Albion doesn’t usually have many visitors. But when a huge crowd of dispossessed immigrants and homeless gather to see a mummy that has recently been moved, political pressure mounts, and the curator must reveal the mystery behind the locked door. To the passionate young man who has adopted the mummy as a figurehead, the curator explains that the once secret exhibit is a bundle of rare objects and intriguing documents that tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman named Leto. Marina Warner’s magical new novel weaves together the story of this ancient goddess and eternal refugee with the drama of the curator, her new friend, and the people whose lives will be transformed by The Leto Bundle. As Leto moves westward across the map from her first home, she slips through time, reappearing in different guises and ever on the run. She gives birth to twins during a far off era of civil strife, shelters with wolves, stows away on a ship, works as a chambermaid in a war torn city, and, in a bombing attack, saves her daughter but loses her son. The novel sweeps from mythological times to the Middle Ages, to Victorian Europe, and then to the present day, when Leto reappears, still searching, of course, for her long lost son. The Leto Bundle retells the story of the eternal refugee in a magical modern novel of huge scope and imaginative force.

Wonder Tales

Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman all of them aristocrats seized on the new enthusiasm for ‘Mother Goose Stories’ and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant narratives they consciously invented the modern fairy tale as we still know it today. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece Wonder Tales, Marina Warner gathered five writers with a special sympathy for the French stories they render here in burnished, cunning and amusing English. The stories, ‘The White Cat’ translated by John Ashbery, ‘The Subtle Princess’ Gilbert Adair, ‘Bearskin’ and ‘Starlight’ Terence Cave, ‘The Counterfeit Marquise’ Ranjit Bolt, and ‘The Great Green Worm’ A.S. Byatt, are as unforgettable today as they were when first published centuries ago. Wonder is the key to the stories, and each tale abounds with transformation and magic. Wonders can be benign like the garden fruits that come when you whistle or baneful like the bad fairy Magotine’s spells, producing dread and desire at the same time. But, fortunately, they almost always punish those who deserve it: tyrants, seducers, and other forces of malevolence. Heroes and hero*ines are put to mischievous tests, and their quest for love is confounded when their objects of desire change into beasts or monsters. Still, true understanding and recognition of the person beneath the spell wins in the end, for after wonder comes consolation, and after strange setbacks comes a happy ending. In Wonder Tales, a magical world awaits all who dare to enter.

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