Medusa’s Ankles

<p><b>A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing<br><br>With an introduction by David Mitchell</b><br><br>Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real.<br><br>Peopled by artists, poets and fabulous creatures, these stories blaze with creativity and travel from Ancient myth to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace. Byatt takes her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary and the gloss of the fantastical, to a place rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable.<br><br><b>'A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' <i>Spectator</i><br><br>'Moving, thought-provoking, witty and shocking all at once' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b></p> <p><b>A luminous selection of short stories from the Booker prize-winning A. S. Byatt, celebrating over thirty years of writing<br><br>With an introduction by David Mitchell</b><br><br>Mirrors shatter at the hairdressers when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real.<br><br>Peopled by artists, poets and fabulous creatures, these stories blaze with creativity and travel from Ancient myth to an English sweet factory, a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace. Byatt takes her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary and the gloss of the fantastical, to a place rich in ideas, vivid in colour and wholly unforgettable.<br><br><b>'A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas' <i>Spectator</i><br><br>'Moving, thought-provoking, witty and shocking all at once' <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b></p>