Nights at the Circus

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan

Sophi Fevvers—the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec—is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake? Dazzled by his love for Fevvers, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser joins the circus on its tour. The journey takes him—and the reader—on an intoxicating trip through turn-of-the-century London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia—a tour so magical that only Angela Carter could have created it.

• Wise Children: A Novel (FSG Classics)
• The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette)
• The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
• The Passion of New Eve (Virago Modern Classics)
• Heroes and Villains
• Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
• Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. Edited by Angela Carter
• Love (King Penguin)
• Shadow Dance (Virago Modern Classics)